NCATE Accredited Schools

techmom99
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:16:06 +0000

My D has her UG degree in childhood and elementary ed with a concentration in music and a master’s in special ed. She taught for one year and then left the classroom. She now works for an educational technology firm doing teacher support and training.

Her degree is from a SUNY school and my advice is that a state school is probably more than sufficient for a teaching degree. I would have been upset, irate, furious and heartbroken had my D (and/or I) incurred tons of student debt for her to get a degree from a private school and she then left the profession after one year. There is an incredible amount of attrition in teaching. My D was someone who everybody thought would stay the course and become a long term teacher. Instead, she lasted one school year. While she has parlayed her degree into a job she loves, it’s with a start up so she doesn’t have the level of medical coverage the NYC DOE provides, she doesn’t have a traditional pension and she doesn’t have union protection. Coming from the program she did, my D easily passed her licensing exams and was hired by the first school she interviewed at. She then disregarded my advice to continue interviewing and when her first choice turned out not to be what she hoped for, she quit the profession instead of looking for something else.