American pedagogy has a long history, and American universities have trained many outstanding educational talents. This is mainly because of the wide classification of education majors in the United States. American university education majors mainly include teaching direction, linguistics direction, macro educational research, educational technology direction and school management.
Second, the curriculum of American pedagogy major
In the undergraduate stage of American universities, most students study public courses in the first two years, and the main courses related to education are general education and basic education courses, including educational psychology, general psychology, educational statistics and so on.
Third, the classification of American pedagogy majors
Because American universities subdivide various majors, American pedagogy majors can also be subdivided into many detailed majors, such as linguistics, educational psychology, teaching, macro-educational research, school management and so on. For example:
1. major in linguistics
Applied linguistics (applied linguistics, which studies language-related issues, such as language communication analysis, grammatical functions, etc. ), TESOL (English teaching major, teaching students English teaching methods and skills), etc.
2. Educational psychology major.
Educational psychology (educational psychology, the study of psychological problems in pedagogy, etc. )
3. Macroscopic education major
Economy and education (educational economics, studying economic problems in education), educational history (educational history, studying the development history of pedagogy), etc.
Fourthly, the application conditions of American pedagogy.
Due to the different educational direction, the requirements for applicants' knowledge reserve are also different. Therefore, for different education majors and different American universities, the corresponding application conditions (admission requirements) will be different:
1. Application conditions for teaching direction: This major mainly trains teachers in schools at all stages, and generally requires applicants to have relevant teaching experience.
2. Linguistic application conditions: students majoring in English and linguistics and non-language majors are easy to be admitted if they have excellent English and language expression skills.
3. Application conditions of educational psychology: students with psychological background.
4. Application conditions for macro education: This major involves sociology, economics and other majors, and students with these professional backgrounds are easily admitted.
5. Application conditions for educational technology: mainly for students with computer background.
6. School management application conditions: This major trains school management talents, and generally requires applicants to have work experience.
The application conditions of American university pedagogy foundation also need to meet the following hardware conditions:
1) English score requirements: TOEFL TOEFL is the best100+; IELTS score 6.5+;
2) GPA: 3.0+, different American universities have different requirements for GPA.
3)GRE/GMAT: Some American universities require GRE or GMAT scores;
Verb (abbreviation for verb) Employment prospects of American education majors
Different branches of American university pedagogy have different employment prospects. Generally speaking, pedagogy in American universities can be divided into the following three categories:
1. American education and employment: diversification of direction
A considerable number of students majoring in pedagogy are engaged in teaching after graduation, which has also become everyone's "mindset" on the employment direction of pedagogy.
Primary education, special education and other majors are mainly engaged in teachers' work after graduation, but graduates majoring in educational technology or educational psychology will be assigned to the management institutions of governments at all levels to engage in education-related work.
2. Employment prospects in the United States
In recent years, due to the economic situation and the government's policy of cracking down on immigration, American education graduates do not have much advantage over local students. However, it also depends on whether the individual seizes the opportunity. Generally speaking, educational students who are cheerful and willing to communicate are more likely to find jobs.
3. Returning to China for development: Most of them are teachers.
According to past data, most foreign students majoring in education go to schools at all levels to be teachers after graduation. However, with the development of Internet economy, more and more education students choose the Internet education industry after returning to China, and the gap and market demand are great!