Teacher Resident - no teaching qualifications required?

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Anonymous wrote:This is a nationwide issue. Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem. Rooms will still be without teachers. I say, bring the warm bodies and then train them. At this point, we just need bodies. Let’s be honest, it’s not difficult to teach. You are given a curriculum which is a guide book. Plus, everything is available to you online.

Hahaha - you go in and do it. Won't last the 1st quarter.

"Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem." - hmm, let's try that out and see how it goes. Who knows, it could maybe work?!

If I decide to go teach tech in a classroom, your kid will be learning practical life skills. They will be learning about how to manage their future lives in an online world by creating scenario where they are married with a couple kids, with end goal being learning how to completely manage balancing their budgets, buying/renting housing, etc. In a more proficient classroom, they will be learning how to design a website and how to use free tools out there to code it, because those tools are now pretty much drag and drop, and lots of fun. Kids can focus on ‘prettying’ up their site. Companies do not usually re-invent the wheel and use these tools, and they are often free to educators. My goal will be to give your kids practical skills that are useful in the real world, using technology as a resource to get there.

Too much teaching these days is of abstract concepts and do not prepare a kid for their future. That’s true of college as well. If you can’t manage your LIFE, you can’t succeed.

Okay then go and try it as a teacher resident.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a nationwide issue. Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem. Rooms will still be without teachers. I say, bring the warm bodies and then train them. At this point, we just need bodies. Let’s be honest, it’s not difficult to teach. You are given a curriculum which is a guide book. Plus, everything is available to you online.

Hahaha - you go in and do it. Won't last the 1st quarter.

"Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem." - hmm, let's try that out and see how it goes. Who knows, it could maybe work?!

If I decide to go teach tech in a classroom, your kid will be learning practical life skills. They will be learning about how to manage their future lives in an online world by creating scenario where they are married with a couple kids, with end goal being learning how to completely manage balancing their budgets, buying/renting housing, etc. In a more proficient classroom, they will be learning how to design a website and how to use free tools out there to code it, because those tools are now pretty much drag and drop, and lots of fun. Kids can focus on ‘prettying’ up their site. Companies do not usually re-invent the wheel and use these tools, and they are often free to educators. My goal will be to give your kids practical skills that are useful in the real world, using technology as a resource to get there.

Too much teaching these days is of abstract concepts and do not prepare a kid for their future. That’s true of college as well. If you can’t manage your LIFE, you can’t succeed.

My ES kids have learned how to design websites, do powerpoint presentations etc. in their 1x a week computer class. There are tons of voc ed tech classes at MS and HS. You just don't know what is actually going on in schools.

Then why don't these kids succeed at life? Instead, they are chasing 'the best colleges' and taking classes in gender studies. My kids were in the publics and there were no classes that taught them anything practical. I pulled them to privates.

First off… how do you quantify success? Anyone with a job? Literally every kid knows how to make a presentation, a Google Site, etc by the time they leave 6th grade. All of these kids won’t be successful?

Adulting, not living with mom and dad and whining about how they can’t get a job in woman’s studies. What you describe is simplistic, but I’m not surprised that’s all you think high school graduates should know.

Umm, it’s you job and a parent to tell them that women studies is not a good major. ES, MS, and HS Teachers don’t chose their majors for them.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a nationwide issue. Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem. Rooms will still be without teachers. I say, bring the warm bodies and then train them. At this point, we just need bodies. Let’s be honest, it’s not difficult to teach. You are given a curriculum which is a guide book. Plus, everything is available to you online.

Hahaha - you go in and do it. Won't last the 1st quarter.

"Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem." - hmm, let's try that out and see how it goes. Who knows, it could maybe work?!

If I decide to go teach tech in a classroom, your kid will be learning practical life skills. They will be learning about how to manage their future lives in an online world by creating scenario where they are married with a couple kids, with end goal being learning how to completely manage balancing their budgets, buying/renting housing, etc. In a more proficient classroom, they will be learning how to design a website and how to use free tools out there to code it, because those tools are now pretty much drag and drop, and lots of fun. Kids can focus on ‘prettying’ up their site. Companies do not usually re-invent the wheel and use these tools, and they are often free to educators. My goal will be to give your kids practical skills that are useful in the real world, using technology as a resource to get there.

Too much teaching these days is of abstract concepts and do not prepare a kid for their future. That’s true of college as well. If you can’t manage your LIFE, you can’t succeed.

My ES kids have learned how to design websites, do powerpoint presentations etc. in their 1x a week computer class. There are tons of voc ed tech classes at MS and HS. You just don't know what is actually going on in schools.

Then why don't these kids succeed at life? Instead, they are chasing 'the best colleges' and taking classes in gender studies. My kids were in the publics and there were no classes that taught them anything practical. I pulled them to privates.

First off… how do you quantify success? Anyone with a job? Literally every kid knows how to make a presentation, a Google Site, etc by the time they leave 6th grade. All of these kids won’t be successful?

Adulting, not living with mom and dad and whining about how they can’t get a job in woman’s studies. What you describe is simplistic, but I’m not surprised that’s all you think high school graduates should know.

You are definitely listening to too much right wing "news" about what is going on in the world. These kids can run circles around you in tech and if they live with their parents it's because housing costs have skyrocketed and they are building investments. There's a lot of data that millenials and Gen Z have way more personal finance knowledge than older generations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a nationwide issue. Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem. Rooms will still be without teachers. I say, bring the warm bodies and then train them. At this point, we just need bodies. Let’s be honest, it’s not difficult to teach. You are given a curriculum which is a guide book. Plus, everything is available to you online.

Hahaha - you go in and do it. Won't last the 1st quarter.

"Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem." - hmm, let's try that out and see how it goes. Who knows, it could maybe work?!

If I decide to go teach tech in a classroom, your kid will be learning practical life skills. They will be learning about how to manage their future lives in an online world by creating scenario where they are married with a couple kids, with end goal being learning how to completely manage balancing their budgets, buying/renting housing, etc. In a more proficient classroom, they will be learning how to design a website and how to use free tools out there to code it, because those tools are now pretty much drag and drop, and lots of fun. Kids can focus on ‘prettying’ up their site. Companies do not usually re-invent the wheel and use these tools, and they are often free to educators. My goal will be to give your kids practical skills that are useful in the real world, using technology as a resource to get there.

Too much teaching these days is of abstract concepts and do not prepare a kid for their future. That’s true of college as well. If you can’t manage your LIFE, you can’t succeed.

Okay then go and try it as a teacher resident.

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Anonymous wrote:500 teachers needed one week before school. FCPS will fill classrooms with unskilled workers who don’t know the subject they are hired to teach and pay them $48K/year instead of paying up for real teachers.

So someone with, say, a MS is not qualified to teach your kid in their subject field? Or are you concerned they might upend some school agenda with facts?

The only requirement is a college degree. Nothing Else. MS degree and provisional license or career switch level 1 program teachers get paid higher.

Y’all we got new math resdident. Old guy with masters from way back when. Nice guy but he dont knoe math. Maybe ge need a job now.

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Anonymous wrote:500 teachers needed one week before school. FCPS will fill classrooms with unskilled workers who don’t know the subject they are hired to teach and pay them $48K/year instead of paying up for real teachers.

So someone with, say, a MS is not qualified to teach your kid in their subject field? Or are you concerned they might upend some school agenda with facts?

The only requirement is a college degree. Nothing Else. MS degree and provisional license or career switch level 1 program teachers get paid higher.

Y’all we got new math resdident. Old guy with masters from way back when. Nice guy but he dont knoe math. Maybe ge need a job now.

I hope your English teacher is fully qualified - for your own sake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It requires nothing except a bachelor's degree and the ability to pass a background check.

what is background check?

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Anonymous wrote:It requires nothing except a bachelor's degree and the ability to pass a background check.

what is background check?

+1 what is required for background process and how long it will take

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Anonymous wrote:It requires nothing except a bachelor's degree and the ability to pass a background check.

what is background check?

+1 what is required for background process and how long it will take

It is too late for teacher resident positions now. They are no longer accepting.

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Anonymous wrote:Does it require a passing score on the Praxis II test to teach the subject?

No experience, no subject area Praxis passing score, and no minimum GPA required for the subject area. They will be cheap to hire.

We have also hired more long term subs who will “teach” full classes with associates degree and barely passing grades. They were cheap to hire.

This year more full time teachers like me will take early retirement.

PP who mentioned other resident teacher programs. For those, I believe they did need passing Praxis 1 and 2 scores. So this is definitely a lower bar.

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The quickest way to get into the classroom is to (1) pass the praxis, either the elementary one, or a subject specific one for high school and (2) get hired by a school district - you then get a provisional license for 3 years. During that time you will need to complete your education classes and your subject matter classes (for instance if you have an English degree but are going for a Math license the VDOE will look at your college transcript and will let you know how many additional college math classes you will need to take in addition to the required education classes). This is also only open to people with at minimum 5 years of work experience. This provisional pathway is often referred to as the career-switcher path.

The new FCPS Teacher Resident program does not sound like this.

I don't think they will require the candidate to even pass the Praxis exam before working in the classroom. When you take the test it will take a few weeks to get your official score back. And a person off the street will generally not pass any Praxis exam without studying.

I don't think they will require the candidate to be older with work experience. The traditional provisional license assumes that an older person with work experience can make up for some of those missing education school learning.

If your child has a first year teacher on a provisional license this year you should be vigilant.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a nationwide issue. Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem. Rooms will still be without teachers. I say, bring the warm bodies and then train them. At this point, we just need bodies. Let’s be honest, it’s not difficult to teach. You are given a curriculum which is a guide book. Plus, everything is available to you online.

Wait, what? There’s a curriculum?! Where do I get this? (/s)

I’m going into year 13 and have never had more than a bullet point list of standards. Methinks you know not of what you speak.

But I do agree the most you can hope for at this point is a legal adult in every classroom.

Exactly. The “curriculum” in this case would probably be assignments that are created by other teachers on the team that said team has had to coach the teacher through. And then will be graded by said team when the teacher either leaves or gets overwhelmed when they realize that they have no idea how to grade against the standard. And thus accelerates the burn out cycle of the experienced teacher. What has to give here is all of the extras that have been placed on teachers since the early 2000s. Let teachers teach and collaborate in an organic way, trust that they went to school to do this,’and let them do their jobs with relative autonomy. The alternative is this…hiring people with zero background in teaching and insane teacher turnover rates.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/13/teacher-requirements-shortage-jobs/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/13/teacher-requirements-shortage-jobs/

Concerning trend to reduce qualifications and just fill classrooms this year

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/13/teacher-requirements-shortage-jobs/

Concerning trend to reduce qualifications and just fill classrooms this year

Luckily not a problem at our school this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/13/teacher-requirements-shortage-jobs/

Concerning trend to reduce qualifications and just fill classrooms this year

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