Ivy educated teachers?

juillet
Thu, 30 May 2013 01:48:51 +0000

My husband is currently attending Columbia to finish his bachelor’s in mathematics (after taking 4 years off to serve in the military). He wishes to be a public school teacher.

Some students achieve in high school not because they want to make six figures and drive a Porsche, but simply because academic achievement makes them happy. I know I get a lot of intrinsic joy from performing well on academic assignments. And it’s not like the networking benefits go away forever. First of all, teachers need to network to get jobs, too. If they ever decide to leave teaching, they have still networked; and if they ever decide that they want to go into administration, they also have their networks.

I’ve worked with undergrads at my Ivy. They’re not bringing private planes to school. Some of them do bring expensive cars or other expensive things that we sometimes see or find in their rooms or hear them talking about. But one of the things I’ve noticed (and smiled about to myself) is that the wealthy kids and middle- and working-class kids, on average, tend to socialize together and learn from each other. I hear them making jokes about their own stations in lives and asking questions of each other, and they learn from each other.

And MADad, the education major is the way to get credentialed in early childhood/elementary education (K-5). If you want to teach middle and high school, you do need to major in an academic discipline, but you can indeed get a teaching license if you major in education - elementary education. And at a lot of schools you can get licensed by majoring in education for 6-12, too - they have programs like “music education” or “mathematics education” or “social science education” that require 20+ credits in education and student teaching in addition to the subject matter.