By 2012 the need for teachers?

Question

or 2014 what do you think the need for math or science teachers will be be? And is someone who majors in Biomdeical Engineering qualified to teach science at high school or elementary?What is an average teachers salary?

Answer 1

By 2012 there will be a teacher shortage of monumental proportions in many areas. The average teacher in my area and what reports I could find are around the 20-25 year mark. With most teachers shooting for the 25 or 30 year mark then that means in the next 5-7 years there will be massive retirements. Couple that with 50% of all new teachers leaving the profession within 3 years and there is a recipe for disaster.

As far as professionals coming back to teaching that is a mixed bag in my experience. The salary is usually quite a deal lower that in the business/professional world. And, frankly, many professionals can't adapt to the climate. Teaching isn't easy, it is hard learning to continuously adapt. I have seen many a Ph D. in math or science teach and all have been gone within a year or two. They come to teach rational young adults, when in most cases there is NOTHING rational about teenagers. Plus their schedule rotates every year and maybe even their room assignment. They may or may not get the honor students (that is usually a perk for teaching alot of years over advanced professional degrees). And remember, there just isn't your agenda, you have to weigh and balance the district's, school's, administrators', and students' agendas. Then special circumstances come into play. Sometimes the plan for the day or week gets thrown out the window and many people can't cope with that.

I always encourage anyone to try it out first as a substitute or whatever to get the feel for teaching. It isn't as easy as it looks. You have to be a good talker, listener, storyteller, organizer, go to events, help out and get help from your co-workers, deal with as many as 33 personalities at a time and follow a plan. Whew. On somedays it is freakishly impossible. But if you have a knack for it, teaching is fun and rewarding and you can't beat that.

Answer 2

There will always be a need for math and science teachers. As far as History and English teachers, those teachers are a dime a dozen. With a biomedical engineering degree you would be a crazy to go into teaching. You would be eligible to be a math teacher, but then again if you do teach at secondary education level with an engineering degree everyone is going to think you must have done sometime wrong at your other profession. A teacher's salary is about half of a biomedical engineer. With 20 years of experience, a teacher could earn about $60,000 a year in NYC. But that's with a lot of experience and education. According to the teacher's union, there is going to be a need for teachers in the year 2012. Yet that's usually a bargaining tactic used by the union to get more money for the teachers.

Answer 3

One never knows...it depends on too many things; funding (which is always being cut), technological advances (many think we'll be home schooling by then via Internet), the amount of people who need to learn (will there be another Baby Boom or opposite) and the amount to teach (too many qualified for too few jobs)...

Biomed Engineers can teach - you would just need to get certified or get a Master's Degree or PHD (for college level).

Average salaries are not be close to what they will be in 2014, but here is a link to see by state: http://www.aft.org/salary/index.htm

Answer 4

There is no freaking teacher shortage. There is just a shortage of people willing to go through the union-supported bullsh** to become a "certified" bulletinboard maker, er, schoolteacher! If we would open up classrooms to retired professional & other people who have actually used what "teachers" have read in books, we would have an abundance of teachers who could actually provide information about the real world! However, unfortunately, those who can do, those who can't teach public school!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

by then, math and science will suck a lot. as you can already see 10 years ago, the math alone, curriculum has dropped. Gr. 10, there was geometry. Now, 2007, its gone from gr. 10 to gr. 12, and this is the last year its being taught. afterwards, its being moved to university. other subjects are being pushed back because parents are saying "a touch of it would be good". i can bet my balls that those aren't asian parents. as in cantones "yow gum lan, gow gum lan"

any teacher will be able to teach. Yes, we will need them. probabily more tutors than teachers though.