Academics and undecided whether to make a conversion to teaching? Looking for the path to a secure career in the education system?

We have compiled for you a collection of questions and answers for your next significant step, or simply: everything you wanted to know about conversion to teaching!

Why?
The personal reasons why people choose to make a career change and move into the field of education and teaching in particular are different and varied. Some people are looking for a job with employment stability, there are quite a few parents who have experienced the education system through the children and now want to join it, improve and promote it, and for others in an old and beloved dream they now seek to fulfill and realize themselves through.

where?
The Beit Berl Academic College offers a wide range of options for academics in conversion tracks for teaching or postgraduate studies with a teaching certificate. The college is located in the heart of the Sharon on a pastoral campus.

Curricula in the field of teaching are rich, interesting and challenging which are focused on pedagogical and didactic content relevant to teaching training. The college emphasizes guided experience in various teaching frameworks and provides guidance, support and personal guidance.

Learning in the classrooms is experiential and enables innovative and varied methods including workshops, distance learning, event analysis, use of a website accompanied by a course and more.

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What can you learn?
As part of the teaching certificate studies, you can find many areas of specialization among them: early childhood, elementary school education, special education and more. The candidate can decide whether to expand the profession he studied in the undergraduate studies as part of the teaching studies or to take advantage of the studies and study and specialize in a completely new field.

In any case, the range of courses offered by the College for Teaching Certificate Studies is huge: new fields such as computer science teaching with a specialization in cyber defense, as well as core studies such as English, mathematics, science (chemistry-biology), physics, history, literature and more at level 4 and 5 units for matriculation.

How long?
The studies for the training of academics for teaching at the Beit Berl Academic College last between one and two years, and depend on the professional and personal academic experience of each candidate.

Who is it for and what is better?
The studies are suitable for academics who are interested in converting to a teaching profession, and have two options: training academics for a teaching certificate or for a master's degree that includes an M.Teach teaching certificate.

The studies in the teaching training program are suitable for academics who are interested in acquiring the teaching profession or academics with a teaching certificate, who are interested in expanding their certification track or changing their areas of certification.

The curriculum is personal, adapted and takes into account previous degree grades, previous knowledge and experience.

The master's degree program, which includes an M.Teach teaching certificate, lasts about two years and is suitable for academics with a bachelor's degree with a high grade point average who want to teach later in elementary / post-primary school. It is important to note that a master's degree confers an advantage in the education system in terms of salary as well as in terms of roles and progress within the system.

Scholarships and Benefits The
Ministry of Education offers generous grants and scholarships to academics in the various M.Teach programs. The total scholarships and grants for students in M.Teach graduate programs can reach up to NIS 28,000 * (scholarships from the Ministry of Education and grants from the Beit Berl Academic College).

And what about employment opportunities?
There is a great demand for teaching staff in primary, secondary schools and kindergartens. In addition, coaching, management, and other roles can be found in schools and other educational settings.

The work in the Ministry of Education is work with high occupational stability that characterizes work in the public sector, as opposed to the private sector. Also, the high demand for educators is increasing. The education system needs quality academics who will integrate as expert teachers, especially in the core subjects.

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Where are the college graduates today?

About 20% of all leading educators in Israel are graduates of the Beit Berl Academic College. College graduates are integrated into the formal and informal education system and a significant proportion of them fill key positions in the education system as principals, curriculum developers and policy makers. Graduates of the Beit Berl Academic College enjoy an excellent reputation in the labor market and are given priority in placement in the education system by school principals and employers.

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