I am doing it but as I take the courses I don't feel I am learning anything new that will help me be a better teacher. I am just looking forward to being done so my paycheck will be bigger, which isn't really all that big.
I am doing it but as I take the courses I don't feel I am learning anything new that will help me be a better teacher. I am just looking forward to being done so my paycheck will be bigger, which isn't really all that big.
A lot of teachers do this but I have a friend who is a social worker and a friend who is an accountant both did their masters for the pay increase and better job security and both say they learned little.
I am not a teacher, but I got a master's simply because it means greater job security and an increase in pay. I don't like school, but I did very well (as far as grades). However, I learned very little (on purpose).
My dad did that.
Troll but the idea of getting further degrees to increase your salary isn't really anything to start a thread about.
You are a troll because teachers have to get their masters in order to become permanently certified.
honestlyspeaking wrote:
You are a troll because teachers have to get their masters in order to become permanently certified.
False. In PA you need 24 credits.
A couple thoughts:
If you are actually learning nothing then you piss poor attitude probably means your not a good teacher.
There is nothing wrong with getting a masters to get better pay. Many professions do the same.
Each state have different teacher certification rules and some do have mandatory masters with a certain number of years.
I would say in most states you have to continue going to school to renew your teaching certificate, which you need to do to keep your job.
Wife is a teacher - in order to stay certificated in the state where she teaches requires a Master's Degree; or progress toward one if you were a teacher prior to the requirement.
Then there are the required clock hours between every re-certification - those are REQUIRED by the state - and it does increase her pay when she passes certain number of hours (like 30, 45, 60 & 90).
oldtimeteacher wrote:
I would say in most states you have to continue going to school to renew your teaching certificate, which you need to do to keep your job.
My district requires a masters after 7 years but you also get a big increase in pay. They will flip the bill so its worth it.
tycobb wrote:
A couple thoughts:
If you are actually learning nothing then you piss poor attitude probably means your not a good teacher.
There is nothing wrong with getting a masters to get better pay. Many professions do the same.
Each state have different teacher certification rules and some do have mandatory masters with a certain number of years.
This is pretty spot on.
Personally, I would like to get two masters. I'm currently finishing my first in education, and the reason I did that first was because it would be quicker and allow me to get a pay bump first. Then, with that pay bump, I can afford to take more classes and get an English masters. Hopefully.
That said, even though I'd consider my education classes easier than if I'd gone straight for an English degree, they're definitely helping to make me a better teacher and I'm learning a lot from them.
tycobb wrote:
A couple thoughts:
If you are actually learning nothing then you piss poor attitude probably means your not a good teacher.
There is nothing wrong with getting a masters to get better pay. Many professions do the same.
Each state have different teacher certification rules and some do have mandatory masters with a certain number of years.
I actually disagree with this at some level. I have taken many ed courses that were almost useless. I had a piss poor attitude in THOSE classes. Not to brag, but I have a pretty good reputation as a teacher. My AP students always score well above the national average (of course, I teach in an affluent district) and my former students have thanked me many times upon returning from college and experiencing college teaching. The fact is that many continuing education classes are dispiriting, filled with marginally useful information and subject to the latest trends in educational philosophy.
PS Based on your post, you are not one to criticize anyone in a discussion of education.
Not a teacher, but when I was in the Air Force, most of my fellow officers had or were getting their masters degrees part time to have that box checked when it came time for promotion.
There's nothing at all wrong with that.
If you are doing it anyway, why not get an administrative license or some other masters degree that might help you in the future? Anything, master's degrees included, is only what you make it.