Can I major in Theatre, and still be a HS Drama Teacher?

Looking into the future for the next few years, I'm getting to the point where I must decide what I'm going to do in my life career wise. Eeek! Anyway. I'd love to be a HS drama teacher, and was curious if I could major in Theatre or preferrably Musical Theatre, minor in Education, and still be able to teach? Or do I have to major in Education in order to teach? Thanks.
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:37 pm Post subject:

You just have to be able to attain your teaching certificate to be able to teach, your major does nothing but determine what you are going to teach.
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject:

unless you teach in a private school. or a community college. then you dont need a teaching degree..but you do need a degree in the field you will be teaching.
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:47 pm Post subject:

It depends on the university - I think some schools actually have theatre education majors, though.
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:04 pm Post subject:

there are several ways you can do it.

You can get a speech and theatre degree which makes you take the main theatre courses plus education courses. Take the praxis and you can teach.

Get your degree in theatre and go back and get a masters, take the praxis, you can teach!

Get your degree in theatre and a minor and I believe you can still take the praxis to be able to teach...

My advisor told me that I should have done a theatre major and a secondary education major... But I only did the speech theatre degree. I'm not too sad because in theatre a degree doesn't always mean anything... As long as you have the experience and you are good you can get the job (tech wise anyway...) It's your choice.
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject:

Oh word on the praxis I score-- some colleges allow exemptions of it if you have a certain SAT or ACT score. But you still will have to take Praxis II.
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject:

I am a theatre education major, which will license me to teach theatre after my four years of college in any school, public or private. It's great, I recommend it.
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:08 am Post subject:

There is nothing like that you should be major in education to teach somewhere. You can also have major in music theatre and teach as a music teacher.

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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:43 am Post subject:

It may be different in some areas, but where I am private schools are infamous for having the second-rate, less-qualified staff that couldn't get hired at the "real" schools.
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