Science:
After several years of working in university labs, a PhD
chemist switched to teaching science and math to secondary
school students. Jeff Cruzan earned his doctorate in physical
chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and did
his postdoc at Harvard Medical School. When he realized how
much he enjoyed explaining things to people, however, he
decided to change directions and pursue a career as a teacher.
Cruzan got a job teaching science in a Massachusetts high
school through a program that does not require a traditional
teaching degree, which can take as long as two years of
full-time study. Because of the current need for secondary
school science and math teachers, a number of people in those
fields have been pursuing that “alternative path”
to a second, and rewarding, career in teaching, writes Beryl
Lieff Benderly for
Science.
