Sunday, March 21, 2010

Concentrate, Concentrate, Concentration


As you can see we learn about concentration at an early age. And being an Elementary Education major I've had to think about what my concentration would be. I've thought long and hard and I know I  have to declare it soon. It's between Spanish, Math, and Kindergarten. All very good things as a concentration for my field. But which one do I choose, or can I do all three. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I'd like to do all three, because I think that'll give me a little bit of an edge, but the question is if I would be able to graduate on time doing all three. I chose Spanish as one of them because I have done Spanish all 4 years in high school, and I took the Spanish placement test and tested into 201. So I thought that those were all valid points, there's also a rise in bilingual classrooms throughout the US so I thought that having this concentration may help me get a job since we all know that they are cutting back on teachers. The second one I chose was Math because this is one of the most needed things in schools right now, math teachers so I figured if i don't get my dream job teaching a younger grade I'll always have something to fall back on teaching math. Plus math just so happens to be my favorite subject. And last but not least is the kindergarten concentration, this is the one that doesn't have as much value as the other two, but probably the one that I want the most. Deciding my major I had a hard time between choosing Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education. I finally ended up choosing ELED obviously because they make more money working, but I told myself that I really really wanted to teach kindergarten. So here I am now deciding what to do and I'm kind of in a pickle. Any suggestions?

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