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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beard in the Sky" data-source="post: 1800820" data-attributes="member: 16877">I am a High School English teacher in South Carolina.The first thing you should consider is that a Masters degree is a Masters degree in public education. I would -strongly- recommend that you at least consider pursuing a Masters in Teaching (M.A.T.) which both certifies you to teach AND allows you to be paid on the Masters level (about 10k a year more on average). I have an M.A. in English Lit from USC and am paid not a penny more than if I held an M.A.T. despite the fact that my degree was much harder to obtain and the latter can usually be gotten in a year or so. That being said, I found it EASIER to get a job with a M.A. than some folks I know who have only a B.A. With the amount of accountability legislation that has been passed by both states and at the federal level, most schools want the most qualified teachers they can get, period. A final piece of advice... one doesn't teach history, one teaches students. (I say this to anyone considering public education). Anyone who teaches for love of a subject only will be miserable when confronted with the shocking degree of need many of our students display. The average person on the street, despite having graduated from public school, has NO idea what goes on in our schools and you are certainly not prepared for it by any education program. I love my job, but not because I love my subject... though having a love of both the kids and the stuff is the best possible scenario.</blockquote>

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