Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators
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#3Sounds like a good reason to continue the experiment. As long as we continue to insist on paying teachers as little as possible, it makes sense to lower the ridiculous educational requirements just to teach elementary school.
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#4As a former high school teacher, I am in favor of reduced requirements to enter the profession; however, I taught in two states that supported these types of on ramps, and they didn’t seem to make a notable impact on applicant numbers (that is, out of the hundreds of educators I worked with over the years, I knew only one who came in via a non-traditional pathway after working in a different field (engineering)).
That’s not the question the article is asking, but I’m skeptical that making it easier for professionals to career switch into teaching is going to cause any meaningful number of them to do so.
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#5Makes sense to me. I attended public school all my life. Everyone I knew more or less had the same out look on formal education, means to an end, can I just get the spark notes, thanks.
In college I interacted with a strange life form called a "homeschooler". Almost without exception they were smarter, better read, and had a desire to learn. Educating children seems to be far more than degrees, licenses, and CE credits.
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#6Maybe public education is so broken in the U.S. (e.g., No Child Left Behind) that this issue is just statistical noise in the outcomes?
I'm mostly going on the stories from a teacher relative; I'm 99% speculating.
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#7This is good news for me personally. I'd like to make money in tech for perhaps 10 more years and then teach music (and comp sci?) in a public high school. I have advanced degrees in music but no education degree. Under current rules I'd have to stick to teaching at the college level which doesn't appeal to me because the degree is a bad financial decision for the students working towards it.
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#8Whatever can be measured can be managed, but not everything that counts can be counted. I'd be interested to see international comparisons and closer attention paid to more subjects than English and maths, as well as psychosocial development, classroom environment, and student mental health.
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#9With working from home getting popular, even fewer people want to be a teacher. 5 days a week starting at 8am. Not going to happen.
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#10Underlying problem: people don't want to pay teachers enough.