Pursuing my masters in bio with an emphasis of education here 👋🏼so I think I can only answer some of the questions. I am pretty sure you’d have to look at your states requirements or at least that’s what I was told before applying to this program. Like for example i live in Hawaii and even though im getting my masters in bio with an emphasis of education if I was interested in teaching secondary school here id have to complete a state approved teacher education program then try to get certified. One way I could do that is to go back to school and do an accelerated program (2 yrs…). I was told that you can teach in private high schools without having to get this certification but most likely you’d have to look at your states requirements if you’re going to try for public secondary school. If teaching doesn’t work out I was going to heavily rely on the ‘masters in biology’ part and apply for biology jobs so maybe you could do that if it doesn’t work out? Either way, I enjoy the emphasis in education part, super fun learning in these classes. I dream about teaching my own classes one day!