Accredited Education Degree
December 23rd, 2008I have a lot of life experience and a fair amount of schooling, but I don’t have any credentials to teach. The problem is that, although I am fully qualified to teach mathematics, social studies, or even English, I live in a school district that demands highly qualified teachers. That means that I have to have the education certificate to even be considered for a job. That is why I have decided to enroll in an accredited education degree program. I figure that, by getting my education credentials on line in a short period of time, I can really get into the field that I want without too much hassle.
The tough thing for me has been sorting through all the different accredited education degree programs. There are plenty of different schools that offer online education degrees, and it is difficult to tell which is the best. For me, it has been a matter of old-fashioned detective work, but on the computer. First of all, I’ve checked out all the education degree accreditations To make sure everything is genuine. I have a friend who made the mistake of not doing this, and paid the price. He wanted to get an online business degree, but he used a program that was not accredited by any major institutions. As a result, his degree really wasn’t worth that much in the end.
After that, I spent a lot of time talking to people in the different programs and looking for information. Some of the accredited education degrees were pretty distant and wouldn’t give me a lot of info. They would send me the pamphlets, but they wouldn’t answer the questions I would ask. Needless to say, I ruled out these programs. Of the ones that would talk to the one on one, I asked a lot of different questions about what the curriculum was, where their degrees were accepted, what sorts of jobs their graduates had, and the like. I even started to look for students to interview, and managed to find a few.
I think I now have a good idea of what the different accredited education degree providers look like. Out of the 30 different programs I looked at, I narrowed it down to about three or four. I’m not really sure which one is the one I’m going to go to, but it probably will come down to a combination of price and schedule. You see, I work full-time, so I need a really flexible schedule with pretty loose deadlines. If I can find an accredited education degree program that will simultaneously give me the skills I will need to teach and do it on my own terms, I think I’ll go with it.