charter school inexperienced teachers

[Anonymous]

Inexperienced teachers are too much of a feature at charters. Our family has had direct experience with 2 community charters and know families at several more community charters. And its the same story at each-hard to retain experienced staff. If your child is one of the "lucky" ones ending up with inexperienced teachers year after year, inexperience is a problem. We're paying more each successive year for supplemental camps, tutors and classes for a child who is bright and has no behavioral or learning problems due to inexperienced teachers. They have to learn classroom management and how to teach to students who are not traditional learners by actually doing it. These essential skills can not be taught.

[Anonymous]

it is not necessarily the inexperienced teachers who you should be worried about. at a DCPCS, my DC had a 'very experienced, highly regarded' teacher that yelled at kids, cried in front of the kids, lost children, and had no control of the classroom. in this same year at the same school, my other DC had a 1st year teacher who was wonderful, kept the challenging kids under control and the more advanced kids stimulated!

[Anonymous]

Wait, why is crying a bad thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, why is crying a bad thing?

That's the one thing you could pick out?

[Anonymous]

More charters have majority 1st/2nd year teachers because of
a.) no job security (can't join WTU)
b.) LONG hours (9-10 hour work days, plus extra time at home)
and c.) compared to DCPS the pay is a joke.

I left a high-performing/well-known charter school to teach for DCPS for these very reasons. Most 1st year teachers are great, their enthusiasm is contagious and they are willing to support students/families at all costs, some are not. But it's a challenge you have to be prepared to deal with when you are talking about charters. They aren't set up for teachers who have a life/families and not willing to put up with the bs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Inexperienced teachers are too much of a feature at charters. Our family has had direct experience with 2 community charters and know families at several more community charters. And its the same story at each-hard to retain experienced staff. If your child is one of the "lucky" ones ending up with inexperienced teachers year after year, inexperience is a problem. We're paying more each successive year for supplemental camps, tutors and classes for a child who is bright and has no behavioral or learning problems due to inexperienced teachers. They have to learn classroom management and how to teach to students who are not traditional learners by actually doing it. These essential skills can not be taught.

Are these language immersion charters?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. That's teaching in DCPS. Figure out what you can do to support her.

No, that's teaching in a charter school. Also a lot of private schools. My kid's NWDC private just loves to hire 23 year olds who graduated from top 30 universities with zero teaching experience or education degrees.

23 year Olds can afford to work for meager private school salaries.

And some charter schools have longer hours. My friend who teaches in NY found that charter schools paid less with more hours. 23 year olds can and (maybe) don't mind doing that. Not experienced teachers with families.

Yes, my old Charter school hours was from 8am to 4pm. I'm now at DCPS making 15k more with "less" instructional hours.

I hope you meant to write "fewer"!

[Anonymous]

Well, in our experience the teacher in her first year was far more energetic and positive with our PS3 student than the veteran who ran her preschool room like it was a military academy. I'd take fresh out of school with eagerness and enthusiasm over bitter and burnt out any day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, in our experience the teacher in her first year was far more energetic and positive with our PS3 student than the veteran who ran her preschool room like it was a military academy. I'd take fresh out of school with eagerness and enthusiasm over bitter and burnt out any day.

some choices you got there.

how about enthusiastic but clueless vs experienced but stern?