Why? There is the pay raise, sometimes as much as $3000 per year. As long as grad school doesn't cost you $30,000, you'll make your money back and enjoy additional earnings over your career.
But going to grad school before you have spent two years or so in a full-time teaching position? Right after you finish your Bachelor degree? Not wise. Who do you think a school will hire: someone with a B.S. and 5 years of experience or someone with NO experience but a mandated higher starting salary, thanks to that M.A. in Educational Administration?
If you want to be a school principal, you need to teach first. Teachers won't respect an administrator who hasn't been in the trenches, struggling to help students and worrying about pass rates on standardized tests. Also understand that a principal is a political animal. And if your organization skills are like this teacher's? You may not be cut out to be a principal.
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Are you thinking about teaching at the college level? You need a Master degree for that, but do you know how the pay scale works?
The lowest paid second grade teacher in Houston ISD earns $44,987 per year to teach 20-25 students.
The typical developmental reading/writing instructor at Prairie View A&M University earns $42,000 per year to teach over 200 students per year.
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