Hi guys,
After a year of working and messing up my life, i want to go back to school. in particular i want to study to become a history teacher. I don't want to mess it up, so i want to come as prepared as possible. where should i start? and how to lay it out over a year+ period?
I have plenty more questions but this will do for now.
thanks in advance.
(if this is against the rules i will delete it. and sorry if my English isn't perfect, it is a 2nd language for me)
Read as many history books as you can. Find the particular era you like if there is one. Dive into it.
Find history people! Lost of places have a local history society, or you can look online and see if there are people you can geek out with stuff about. I have a friend who’s doing a masters in philosophy, we regularly talk about how OTP Socrates and Alcibiades were.
Practice writing essays (that is a huge part of history degrees, at least where I am) even if you don’t have anyone who knows about history, a big part of essays is how they are structured, so try and get people to read them for you and give you feedback on that.
See if you can do some volunteering at a local museum or dig site or something similar, even if there’s no historical opportunities about see if you can get some experience working with kids of a similar age you want to teach (Scouts, Brownies/Guides, Holiday Clubs, that sort of thing.)
Also your English is great. Good luck!!!!
I don’t know the teaching situation where you’re at, but where I’m from, it’s hard to get a job just as a history teacher. I’m a recent college graduate that majored in history that has a couple friends that were history teaching majors, and they all have what we call a social science endorsement, meaning they’re qualified to teach government, economics, geography, topics like that. You may want to look into something like that to help you seem more attractive as an applicant to schools.