History Teaching Education
If you have a passion for history and are looking for a way to share it, look no further! A history teaching education will teach you all you need to know to teach kids, in an educational setting, about history.
A recent survey of high school students in the U.S. uncovered the embarrassing fact that more than half of high school students surveyed couldn’t put a date on the American Revolution! It’s 1776 just in case you were wondering. History teachers are charged with the important task of helping people gain an understanding of American and world history so they can truly be an active participant in the government and a responsible U.S. citizen at the very least. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that the employment of teachers is expected to grow by 12 percent between 2006 and 2016.
As a history teacher you will deliver lectures to students, evaluate student work, prepare assignments and mentor students. History education courses will teach you creative thinking, organization, course planning, communication skills and research. Many history educators, especially at the collegiate level, are research focused which means you can spend hours upon hours researching and analyzing events that are interesting to you and it’s considered part of your job. Look into some history education classes today!