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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 3978235" data-attributes="member: 45785"><p>I've been through the OU teacher ed program, TE+, which is the usual 4-year undergrad program plus a year of graduate classes. You did not need to have any credits in the subject you were going to be teaching. I have a BSED in Social Studies, Secondary Education. NO History classes, NO Geography classes, NO Math classes, just education classes. Pedagogy supposedly lets someone who has taken the classes for teaching teach any subject. You do have to take certification tests in Oklahoma. Well, did then, I don't know about now. I was certified for Mild-Moderate Disability, Mid-level to Intermediate Math, and several of the Social Studies specialties. Wanted to teach history, but after graduation, found that history teachers almost had to be coaches. Was, at the time, only one in the state who wasn't. I think sports in school is mostly  a waste of time and energy. So I started their Master's program in Special Education. Got close to half-way through it before I developed obstructive sleep apnea, undiagnosed until nearly the end of the school year, which essentially killed my nascent teaching career. Took me a few years to believe it. And now I'm glad I'm not in the field.</p></blockquote><p></p>