[WillRain]

That's pretty close to what I'm taking: Social Science major with Ed courses in Methods, Tests & Measures, and an intro class. But you can't say just 6 hours because the practice teaching semester counts for 12 by itself. But besides that I got 9 hours.

[DeFault User]

I mentioned 6 hours as an education base so that a student could learn methodology and practices for the age group to be taught. Schools that I'm familiar with here have veteran teachers mentoring new hires for awhile which is virtually like practice teaching.

We hear so many horror stories of new teachers not being able to pass basic math and English requirements that I believe it's preferable to have a strong major in the subject(s) to be taught rather than educational theory.

I took one education course just in case I might be a public school teacher and determined that was not my career choice. However, I did teach college level for 7 years and found fewer headaches than others who went the K-12 route.