subject: Online Teaching Degree Types [print this page] 1. Early Childhood Degree - The BLS documents about 170,000 kindergarten and 437,000 preschool teachers in the previous year, with demand increasing by over 50,000 now. ECE program permit students to follow a career in public pre-k programs, daycare centers, kindergartens, special needs programs and religious schools. Also, students may qualify for jobs in technology, administration, as well as library studies. Usually, higher degrees will need students to get ECE experience.
2. Elementary Education Degree - Teachers are asked to have a bachelors degree at least to teach. These degrees provide students the great depth of knowledge of teaching students, though it's also possible to teach when having a bachelors degree in any other subject by earning a teaching certificate. Besides, there are roughly 1.5 million elementary education teachers in the country, and job increase should make a demand for even 150,000 more in the following 10 years. Such degrees are given at the masters, post-baccalaureate, and bachelors level. A lot of programs provide subject matter specializations in math, reading, music, physical education or foreign language. When this degree is made for future teachers, it may lead students to positions in administration, special education or guidance counseling too.
3. High School & Secondary Teaching Degree - In fact, high school teachers own a particular capability to form young lives when they work with promising adults in their teen years. Students getting high school teaching degrees are in want of picking a field of specialization, in sciences with Physics, Chemistry or Biology, in History, English, Spanish or Mathematics. Also, high school technology teachers have to show a work history in the areas for certification. Besides, there are a lot of certificate programs allowing students to become certified in their fields of specialization in just 1-2 years. Certificates are easier to get now then it was in past, because of the lack of high school teachers in most high growth as well as urban areas of the USA. The option is very popular for older people, who switch their careers to teach after years in business communities.
