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Education

Education

Most everyone knows what education means. After all, we’ve been touched by formal education since we attended preschool. For that matter, if your parents ever read you a bedtime story, you were being taught about the world around you. Training to be an educator is just as wide-reaching and important. Educational training provides instruction at all academic levels from preschool and elementary and high schools, to colleges, universities, trade schools, tutoring, and guidance counseling. It is also the fastest growing industry in the U.S.—experts estimate that between 2008 and 2018, jobs in education will increase more than 26 percent.

The fastest growing jobs in education include preschool teachers, elementary teachers, middle school teachers, and college professors. Careers in education are growing because more workers are returning to school to enhance or update their skills, there are more federal standards that have to be met, and a high percentage of Baby Boomer teachers will retire in the coming years.

The Maricopa Community Colleges offer degree, certificate, and transfer partnership programs to train students for careers in education. The National Center for Teacher Education (NCTE), a department within the Academic Affairs Division of the Maricopa Community Colleges, serves in a leadership role for Pre K-12 teacher education initiatives. For more specific information about education programs available through the Maricopa Community Colleges, please visit the NCTE website.