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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^Early childhood education is a specialized area of expertise just like Math/English/Science/History are.[/quote]

I just disagree with this model.

It puts all the risk on the future early childhood educators. If the career works out, great. If you find out you don't enjoy teaching young kids as much as you thought, you're screwed because your education doesn't help you in any other way.

The school systems themselves should be able to train people with degrees in math, science, etc to be able to teach young children.

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1st graders don't care if their teacher has an in depth knowledge of Calc 3.  They care that their teacher knows how to lead circle time, gets their classmates to share, keeps them safe on the playground, knows when to schedule their potty breaks, knows when to refer them for special ed, knows how to teach them basic math and language arts, etc.

Teaching a HS kid AP BC Calc is a whole other ballgame.[/quote]

Yeah I understand completely. I just think it's asking a lot for students to learn this all on their own before their first job offer and before they know for sure how much they like the career considering that the profession itself is not really high paid and the degree won't be good for much else if it doesn't work out.

That being said, how much of those things you said apply to 5th math in the OP's case?[/quote]

5th grade is the tail end of EC.  The kids still get bathroom breaks, recess, etc.  A specialized 5th grade math teacher is going to have some combination of EC ed and math.  [b]Usually the teachers are not strictly math teachers in 5th grade, [/b]though.  The teachers have a regular class and kids simply change classrooms to work on math.  Teacher A may take all of the kids learning Pre algebra.  Teacher B might take the kids who are working on exponents.  Teacher C might take the kids who need extra help., etc.[/quote]

I know - the whole premise here is a bit weird. 5th grade math teacher? I’ve heard of middle school math teacher but not someone who specializes in 5th grade math. Are you sure that your daughter is ok, OP?[/quote]

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