As part of the Education Week hosted by the Cal State Long Beach College of Education, the College of Education Student Assembly Spring Mixer students gave out snacks, set up games that had prizes and passed out flyers on the Central Quad Wednesday.
“We should be taken more seriously,” Juliet Anne Formeloza, a senior liberal studies major pursuing a dual credential in special education and multiple-subject, said. “It’s not just a field like where it’s all fun and games and we get summers off … I want us to move into the direction where teachers have the same merit as doctors and lawyers.”
The COESA’s goal was simple: promote the college and inform prospective students of the opportunities and resources the college offers.
Senior Andrea Alonzo is part of the outreach and success team for the college. Her job is to promote the college and the existing programs within, give tours to students interested as well as reach out to interested students in community colleges.
She is pursuing two credentials and will soon start looking for jobs, which brings up the subject of salaries.
“Within the next five years we’re actually going to be in like a teacher drought because of the recession that happened in 2008,” Andrea Alonzo, a senior and student ambassador lead for the College of Education, said. “A lot of teachers were being laid off and now it’s kind of like ‘Oh, we don’t have enough teachers, let’s bring them all back.’”
Credential programs included there were multiple-subject, single-subject, special education, counseling, administration, liberal studies and early childhood education.
More events are scheduled for Education Week through Saturday including workshops, a job fair and an event called Open Class, Open House where students can sit in on a Liberal Studies, Teaching Credential or Graduate class. That open course schedule is posted on the CED website along with other events during the week.