Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher. While I agree that the academic standards of university Education programs are very, very low, I'd like to note that one doesn't start out with perfect classroom management technique, so this would be difficult to judge during student teaching.
I have a BA and MA in my academic subject, and when I later decided to go into teaching, I had to take out loans to get an Education degree so that I could be licensed. Compared to my academic MA, the Ed classes--even at graduate level--were a joke. I think that the way to ensure that (high school) teachers master their own subject matter is to eliminate Education degrees for high school teachers entirely, and to require teachers to have at least a BA/BS in their subject (NOT an Ed degree in that subject). Then, instead of student teaching, each teacher could do a paid year--not just a semester--as a classroom assistant/apprentice teacher with an experienced classroom teacher, who would also be compensated for helping the prospective teacher along.
This is absolutely brilliant.
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