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Yes, in NJ to be a HS teacher of Science or Math you need to have a
degree in the subject first and then add-on the teaching courses.
Since I teach Physics and ODE, I get to see them all at my community
college. It is amazing how much of a fight they put up -- "Why do we
need to learn this if we'll never teach more than Calculus?" etc.
Once I have them in class, I do my best to not only show them the
course content but how it all fits together. Once they see all the
interconnectedness of it, they appreciate it more; and anecdotally,
they report doing much better at their 4-yr. schools and in the
classrooms than their peers (the schools also report this to us).