it is time to pick electives. Next year I will be a junior. I want to be an elementary school teacher. I want to minor in Chinese or linguistics. I plan on moving to different a different country (hopefully China) and teaching foreign children english. Next year I plan on taking all honor classes, except for math. When it comes to choosing electives I originally wanted to take advanced childhood education, where u plan lessons for preschool students at our school’s preschool, elementary education, where you work with local elementary teachers and help them teach their lessons, and doubling up in Mandarin. Some of my friends told me taking two childhood courses may look bad for colleges. If had to take another elective it would probably be world religions. They told me I should take an AP class. The AP classes I would be interested in taking are AP language comp, AP psych, or AP seminar,but i do not know if I really want to do that. I have not thought to much about college but my dream schools would be Pepperdine, Santa Clara University, University of San Diego, or Penn State. Will taking AP classes make a difference?
Could you take that preschool thing senior year? I would put that off and take an AP
AP Classes show you’re willing to challenge yourself, and they can help you pay less for college if you do well on the exams. However, you seem to know exactly what you want to do. I believe you could go either way. Taking AP Psychology could give you a good background in the classes about child psychology you’re probably going to end up taking in college, but taking those childhood education classes give you experience and something to write about in essays. It could work either way. If you can switch from Honors English to AP Lang, that would probably be enough.
I think you’re rushing things a bit. Taking the childhood courses now seems premature and narrows your outlook considerably. I suggest taking AP Psych and AP Lang because both will help you in college. AP Lang is just a good writing class that will help you write (and you will write papers in college). AP Psych provides you with a foundation and background for the education courses you’ll take in college.