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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The easiest/smartest way if you know you want to do it more than a few years is to get a masters in education.

You’ll jump up several thousand a year on the pay scale, and have a true student teaching/internship experience. It will pay for itself in a relatively short period of time.

The career switcher models all have you take a bunch of classes anyway, but you have to do it while teaching and you won’t get a salary bump since it’s not a full masters.[/quote]

NO. You will spend $40k on the masters degree that isn’t even that useful and the salary isn’t enough to offset that if you’re an adult career switcher who won’t be doing this another 30 years. Just be an EL teacher with a bachelors degree. Go through  the career switcher program. Cheaper and gets the job done.

-teacher with a masters [/quote]

$40k????

My colleague just did one for under $10k online! Another is doing a hybrid cohort for $15k.

Definitely don’t do a $40k degree. But up to $20-25? Yes. The career switcher version is $7-8k, so the difference is something you can make up in 5 years with the salary bump and it will pay out in retirement.

If you’re only planning on doing this 5-10 years then yes, not worth it. But I would absolutely not plan to become a teacher for less than 10 years. It took me nearly 10 years to figure out what I was doing and get decent at it.[/quote]

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