Requirements will vary from state to state, and sometimes even from district to district within a state. After deciding WHAT you want to teach, and to what grade level, check with your local school system. Generally, you'll need a 4-year bachelor's degree for most subject areas. If you are retiring from another career, you may be able to move into a teaching license with less coursework. Folks with a lot of science-related job experience may be able to teach chemistry or physics on an temporary permit while pursuing the college coursework. Someone with enough trade experience may be able to move into a vocational-education position without a bachelor's degree. If you're a youngster, think long and hard about the career direction you really want to go. Recent trends in public education indicate that you'd better be prepared to be a life-long learner, as you'll have to keep taking coursework to maintain your license in most states. That coursework will almost always be at your own expense and will be on your own time. (The teacher who only works 8 or 9 months a year and has the rest of the time off is becoming a thing of the past.) Some areas of education are going to be around for decades, or forever. Math, science, and language arts are going to be here. Areas such as art, music, and industrial arts are being dropped by many systems due to budget concerns. Special education is a ripe field, but the burn-out rate is high. In some places being able to speak a second language is a plus. I'll finish my 42 year next week as a middle-school technology education teacher, and I thoroughly enjoy it. I'm already looking forward to August 10, when school starts again. When I started, it was called industrial arts, but those days are gone. I'm teaching almost NOTHING that I was teaching 20 years ago. If you can't change and keep up with change, don't consider a teaching career. If you want a job where no two days are ever the same, it may be just what you want. It's a little like farming, in that you start over ever year, make changes based upon what did and didn't work in the past, and you never know how the "crop" will turn out - sometimes for years.
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