advice anyone?

[Professor S]

If I were either of you I would steer clear of teaching until the whole mess started with No Child Left Behind is settled. Right now teacher burnout is at an all time high and qualified teachers are leaving the field with an incredible distaste for public education.

I'd go into the bureaucratic nightmare that is my attempt to get certified in PA, but that would take about an hour to write. Lets just leave it at this:

If you aren't going to try and get your cert as an undergrad, don't bother. By the time you get you certification, none of your undergrad courses will count for shit. I was told I would have to retake 90% of my undergrad courses in my specialization, and I graduated from a MUCH better school than the one making those demands of me (where I had a 3.9+ GPA at the time).

Honestly, get into adult/professional education. Its exploding as a part of industry. Thats where I am now and I couldn't be happier. I'm encouraged to use bleeding-edge educational techniques, develop new and creative classes and I reach an active and eager audience. Also, I'm paid much better and treated much better than a public educator.