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[quote=Anonymous]I couldn't send my kid to a very expensive college for any major, but if I could, I would support my son wanting to get an education degree there. I agree with PPs that experience and a commitment to get better as a teacher matters most for teacher quality, and that an education degree isn't strictly necessary. Education majors take a lot of courses in theory which is interesting but not necessary for being a good teacher. But that doesn't make it useless or a waste of time. They are interesting. And upper level courses don't always make you that much stronger in your content area. I majored in English because I was good at it and then became a teacher. All those upper-level English classes I took did not make me better at teaching in my content area. They were more rigorous, I learned literary theory, and I got exposure to more works of fiction, but that's it. Just like the theory classes an education major takes, I didn't need those to be a good teacher.

All that said, I do think that an aspiring middle school STEM teacher should get a double major because often teachers bounce back and forth between middle school and high school. The difference between lower-level English and upper-level English courses in college is much smaller than the difference between lower-level and upper level STEM courses, and you can often tell the difference between STEM teachers who are really solid in their content area and ones who aren't. [/quote]

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