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There are several kinds of degrees you can get to become a teacher... if you want to teach high school or middle school you'd need a bachelor's in education or about a year's worth of graduate level classes.
I just finished student-teaching and I loved it and hated it. I found that I loved the kids in both middle school and high school, and I really have a passion for what I teach. The difficulty comes in getting through everything as fast as you need to, having to pay extra attention to NCLB and state standards, grading papers, spending extra time in meetings, dealing with parents and special needs students, and the most difficult thing of all for me is knowing each day that I could have done a better job than I had done. If you want to do something that is very challenging and time consuming, then become a teacher. Don't become a teacher if you think it is easy, because it isn't.
If you are just finishing high school, I'd suggest that you take a variety of courses and see what kinds of classes you like the most. Then, either major in something that you really like and go an extra year to get your master's or certificate, or find a school that has an undergraduate degree.
Personally, I found the most fulfilling classes I took to not be education classes, but my other undergraduate classes. I can't imagine trying to be a high school teacher without having a liberal arts undergraduate degree that allowed me to get the content knowledge that will give me much more to draw upon in my teaching.
The first 2 years of your undergraduate degree don't have to be focused on any major for you to get through just fine with any degree. I changed my major after a year, and I graduated on time. My best advice is to just try some things out before you decide on anything.
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