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Hoopz:
Not sure where you are in WV but here are several links to different programs at different schools.

WV
http://www.hre.wvu.edu/hre/teachered/teachered.html
(The link you should follow on that page isn't working so I couldn't pull up more details.  A call to the school may help)

Marshall
http://www.marshall.edu/coehs/academics/certification/programs/mat/

--- Quote --- The post-baccalaureate teacher certification program is an accelerated avenue for college graduates to attain teacher certification. The program's professional education courses and clinical experiences combine with the content the student earned at the undergraduate or graduate level(s) to lead to teacher certification. For additional information on the certification program, you can request a copy of the brochure.

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Generally speaking, someone with Masters has to be paid 5-8k more per year than a Bachelors.  Unless a school system is desperate for a particular area (math could be one), they don't want to pay for a Masters when a Bachelors candidate will do.  Market conditions obviously can affect that.  However, based on the current economic outlook, I can't see a school district with enough money to go that route unless they are really, really desperate.

I've researched different universities in Indiana for about five or six months regarding licensing.  I realize some rules are different from state to state but the generalities are fairly standard.  I was originally licensed in five or six states to teach secondary education and there were only minor differences between each state.

 

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on February 11, 2008, 04:47:36 pm ---And dude, you keep spelling my name wrong. :P

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Surely you don't mean that.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on February 11, 2008, 06:00:09 pm ---If I could make the money I make now shoveling *poo* I'd switch jobs in a heartbeat.

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I was watching Dirty Jobs the other day and every job I saw had me thinking "that looks more fun than what I do and that guy is knee deep in poo".

shmokes:
Shardian,

Have you considered law school?  With a science/math background you could go into patent law and make loads of money.  There is a major shortage of patent lawyers (you have to have physics and math classes that most law students have no interest in), so you are pretty much guaranteed a high-paying job right out of school.  Firms that normally only take students that were in the top 5%-10% of their class will pretty much just hire you regardless of your performance in law school if you meet the requirements to be a patent attorney. 

Obviously, I'm in law school.  So I'm partial to law school.  Whatever.  What other grad degree can you start whether you majored in political science, music, chemistry, early childhood development, 18th century women's literature, or anything else, only takes three years from start to finish, and sets you up to make the kind of money lawyers can make? 

If you have what it takes to do patent law, and it sounds like you do, and you want to completely change career fields, and it sounds like you do, but you'd still like to make some use of your engineering background (presumably you do), and you want to be guaranteed a very good living . . .

Look into it.

Singapura:
Hmmm, let's see... I went to law school. Now I'm working for a big bank in a tropical country. My office oversees the bay and my apartment has a gym and a swimming pool, I have 11 people in my team and enough money to retire. Did I do okay?  :angel:

But seriously, if you want to enhance your career opportunities, consider an MBA. With a degree in engineering and an MBA the opportunities are much better then with only a bachelor.

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