My daughter is currently a junior in high school, and is interested in teaching math in high school, and then ultimately becoming a high school principal. Do any Georgetown alumni or current students know how she could pursue this path at Georgetown, considering they don’t actually have an education program? She is very interested in doing Teach for America, and wants to teach math for a few years before getting her master’s in school administration. However, our main concern is that since she will not be able to get an education degree from Georgetown, she will have to pursue her master’s in teaching and then obtain another master’s for school administration. Does anyone know if there is a way around this? She loves Georgetown, and this is our main concern about the school.
Georgetown produces a lot of TFA corps members, but you’re correct about it not having a teaching certification program. So in that regard, no, there’s not really a way around it at the Georgetown level.
Whether she will need a master’s degree to teach depends entirely on where she will be teaching, but in pretty much every case I believe she would need to pay for some sort of certification course (which may not be a full blown master’s degree), but this is more of a TFA question than a Georgetown one.
Good luck!