BA in K-12 Spanish Teaching

If you love working with children and adolescents, love the Spanish-speaking cultures, and are excited about developing your proficiency in Spanish, your skills and highly-qualified status as a K-12 Spanish teacher will be much in demand. For the last five years, more than 65% of the school superintendents and principals in Michigan and across the nation have reported a dramatic and long-standing need to hire foreign language teachers. You’ll learn to plan and deliver creative, engaging, age-appropriate lessons for elementary, middle, and high school learners and will have many opportunities to practice your skills when teaching small-group lessons to your peers, working individually with special-needs learners, and leading your own students during student teaching. In addition to the demand for certified Spanish teachers in Michigan and across the nation, teacher certification and teaching experience provide the foundation for graduate degrees in TESOL, counseling, educational leadership, and school administration. Completion of the major will also allow you to continue in many graduate programs, or to pursue careers in fields as varied as tourism, business, retail, fashion, the arts, homeland security, government, and many others.