• Question: When I grow I would love to be a teacher what is the best science to take for being a teacher?

    Asked by Alex to Angus, Catherine, Jenni, Melissa, Waqar on 21 Jun 2016.
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      Melissa Ladyman answered on 21 Jun 2016:

      I depends what type of teacher you want to be. My advice is to do what you enjoy the most because if you enjoy something it doesn’t feel like such hard work!

      I enjoyed lots of things at school and it was really hard to choose what to do, so in the end I chose to do Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Maths- by studying them all I realised which one I was best at (Biology), which one I enjoyed (Chemistry), and most importantly, which one I wasn’t very good at (Physics).

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      Angus Cook answered on 21 Jun 2016:

      I’d agree with Melissa, unless you want to be a science teacher, you don’t really need to have studied science.

      I also know that some of my science teachers taught across the curriculum, some did maths AND physics, some did biology AND chemistry, so I’d say it really depends on what you enjoy learning about, and what you’d enjoy teaching.

      Maybe ask your own teacher what they enjoyed at school 🙂

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      Jenni Rodd answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      We need lots of different types of science teachers. So keep studying subjects that you find interesting and see where that leads you. There are probably lots different types of science that you’ve never even heard of yet! And by the time you are a grown up there may be even more new types of science!

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