How to become a Chinese teacher?

How do you become a teacher in Ontario? Canada...?

• Hey, my name is Courtney and I am 15. I really want to become a teacher. I plan on become an elementary school teacher and teach grades 1-6. I want to know, what should I do now? In highschool, what types of courses should I take? I am great in English, History, (social sciences) some types of sciences, but Im not good at Chemistry or Physics. I am good at Biology, but my teacher told me I shouldn't take Biology unless I take Chemistry first because then it will be so hard. But I am so bad at chemistry!!! I am alright in Math but I do struggle. What courses should I take during high school? And can someone explain the process on how to become a teacher after high school?

• Answer:

  Jake - don't answer a question about Ontario, Canada if you don't know anything about the process to become a teacher in Ontario, Canada. Your major doesn't matter. You can do your undergrad in Yiddish Studies if you want and you can then enroll in a Bachelor of Education program. Courtney - In Ontario in order to teach elementary school you need to get a Bachelor of Education from a university acredited by the Ontario College of Teachers (the governing body of teachers in Ontario). You can get a BEd in three levels: Primary/Junior (K-6), Junior/Intermediate (4-10), and Intermediate/Senior (7-12). In your case you would want to go into Primary/Junior. In order to get a Bachelor of Education at the P/J level you must first have any undergraduate degree. This degree can be in Psychology (like mine is), History, English, French, Music, Kiniseology, Criminology, Visual Arts, Science etc. For P/J it doesn't matter what courses you take. You can also have a 3 year degree, and you don't need an Honours 4 year degree to apply to a BEd at the P/J level, but a 4 year degree will certainly help because teacher's college applications are very competitive. It doesn't matter what subjects you take in high school or what major you have at university in order to teach K-6. There are two ways to get a Bachelor of Education. You can do it in a concurrent education program or a consecutive education program. If you do the concurrent program you apply during your 1st or 2nd year of university and you take education classes at the same time as your own major. It will add one year to your studies (so if you are doing a 3 year degree, it will become 4; if you are doing a 4 year degree, it will become 5) but at the end you will graduate with both a Bachelor of Education and whatever your own degree is. The pros for this options are: it is slightly less competitive as you are competing with students from your own school only; it is convenient as you don't need to go to a different school; you get a bit more background in education as the concurrent program will usually have more education courses than the consecutive program. The second option is the consecutive program, which is what I'm doing. You apply to this in your last year (so 3rd year for a 3 year degree or 4th year for a 4 year degree) and you can apply to any school that offers the program. You spend one year doing only education classes and in the end you graduate with a BEd. This program is nice because your undergrad isn't as busy since you don't need to take ed classes alongside your own major, but it can be a bit more competitive because it is open to anybody with an undergraduate degree. For a list of schools that the OCT recognizes you can visit this website: http://www.oct.ca/become_a_teacher/faculties.aspx?lang=en-CA Right now just focus on getting good enough grades in high school to get you into university. Once you're in university, most teacher's colleges look at the best 50% of your classes or at your most recent two years, so work hard to get at least a B average in your last 2 years or have at least B on half of your total courses. In university you can then start thinking about where to go in terms of your Bachelor of Education. Teaching didn't really become an option for me until my 3rd year of my undergrad, and now I'm half way done a BEd. You don't need to decide these things just yet. So to summarize - if you want to teach Grade 1 to 6 you need to get a Bachelor of Education from an OCT acredited school at the Primary/Junior level. First you need to get yourself into any university program. It does not matter what courses you take in high school and it does not matter what your major is in your undergrad to get into a BEd program at the P/J level.