Is teaching K-12 social studies a waste of a history degree?

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Greg

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I recently graduated with a B.A. in history, and planned on getting my M.A. in history or museum studies. My wife is a 4th grade teacher and told me about the M.Ed. and certification programs to teach social studies. I am about 5 classes into the program but have grown disenchanted. Come to find out, social studies majors only have 4 or 5 history courses. I feel I am wasting my degree and am frustrated because I feel overqualified yet have to pay for a years worth of classes just for certification to teach kids. Is it worth it to have summers off and job security, or is teaching overrated?
 
i dk much about being a teacher but your probably better off not doing unless you don't want a challenge, being a history teacher is the easiest thing to do , the job has a rep for being an easy job so if you think that you want to take the easy road be a teacher in regular school but if you still want to be a teacher and want a challenge then maybe you should teach at a college
 
Teaching is only a waste of your degree if you're not happy doing it. If you think it would make you happy, and you could get some sort of fulfillment out of passing on the knowledge to your students, then it doesn't matter what your past was. It's usually a misstep to try to think of the things you "should" be doing because you associate a particular past with a job. Instead, you should maybe think about why you studied history in the first place, and then think about if teaching would let you enjoy history the way you'd originally wanted to. If you'd be miserable teaching, then it would be a waste of time, both for you and the students, and a waste of life, but certainly not a waste of your degree.
 
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