I hate math, english, history, and science, and I dont know french or spanish. I was thinking of teaching ASL, but my counselor said I needed more than one class I'm willing to teach.
I really want to teach, but im not sure what I like besides ASL
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Well, from your question, it seems you already know what you don't want to teach. So the real problem is for your to learn more about yourself to know what you do enjoy doing that could be connected to an acceptable teaching field (acceptable to the school system, that is).
1) To find out more about yourself, try this: Pretend you won the world's biggest lottery and would never ever have to work or worry about money forever. If that were true, ask yourself what you would do to keep from becoming bored each day. (write the list on a sheet of paper…but make 3 columns, and make your list in the left column. Then fold up the paper and put it away for a few days.
A few days later, take out the list and look at each item carefully. For each thing you like to do, try to figure out A) what is so intellectually/mentally exciting about it for you? (and put those things in the center column)….and then B) what physical activity is associated with the things you like to do (and list those things in the right column).
When you are done, you have an inventory of the things you like to do, and why you like to do them (knowledge and skills). Now the grand prize is to figure out what job exists in the world that deals with your areas of interest that requires the knowledge and skills you either have or are interested in….so in essence, you want to find a job that pays you do to do what you would normally want to do anyway.
2) Check with the career counseling center on you campus to see if they have a program called "Pinpoint" (for more info visit
http://www.appliedinsight.com/) It takes about an hour or less to sit and read through / answer questions to generates your personality profile relative the various fields of study/work. This could point out some possibilities for you.
3) Visit the relevant Dept of Education for your state and look at the teacher credentialing requirements. You didn't say what level of teaching you were considering, but if it is K-12 (it seems you might be looking at secondary education), you need to find out what are the subject areas recognized by your state. Each state can define their teacher credentialing requirements. There are many similarities between the states, but also some very significant differences. I was surprised to find out the Geography was NOT considered a recognized major for credentialing in my state. You should also consider finding out what "special needs" exist in your state….not necessarily special education, but things such as basic developmental (study skills).
4) Had you considered counseling? Seems your experiences might give you insights to help students who face similar challenges as you are facing now about trying to decide on a field of study. Your experiences with this situation enables you to better relate with the students who will be facing similar decisions affecting their lives.
Hope this helps you. Best wishes.