Teacher Resident - no teaching qualifications required?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And I meant it made sense for high school because they can skip the education degree part.

The resident teacher role only allows you to skip licensing requirements for the first year (And licensed high school teachers typically get a BA/BS in their subject area and either do a post-bac education courses or master's in education in VA to be fully licensed). The thing that is new is this resident teacher position just requires a 4 year degree and doesn't require passing the praxis--not even for the subject areas they are going to teach. It's problematic because it's not like you're going to be told your child's teacher is a "resident teacher" so people are going to be very confused when teachers don't have content knowledge. If your teacher is a long term sub you kind of know they may or may not have deep content knowledge and adjust accordingly.

I'm all for the resident teacher position given that there's a teacher shortage, I just think the praxis should be the bar to pass. It's a 1-4 hour test depending on subject area and there are on-line resources to study for it. It shouldn't be a problem for anyone who is capable of teaching the subject (though it's not an easy test, these are people who did get a college degree). Otherwise people are going to waste a lot of energy of mentoring, supporting a person who is not capable of passing the test. (There are people who enroll in graduate education programs who can't pass the praxis after many tries and have to go teach in Catholic/private schools that don't require it or switch out of the field).

[Anonymous]

^ + 1

BTW praxis passing score is very low. ETS practice test are $20. It is easy prep and easy to pass.

[Anonymous]

I always heard praxis tests were really easy to pass.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone here actually gotten a teaching job through this program?

One of the SAHMs was hired as an IA during COVID now has a full-time teaching job at our school through this program. I’ve never been impressed with her, she’s more interested in gossiping about the kids in the neighborhood and their families, but I guess these are desperate times.

That’s what the people crowing about teacher posts being “98% filled” on DCUM don’t understand. These are just woefully incompetent warm bodies. Fine if all you want is a babysitter, I guess. Shrug.

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Anonymous wrote:I just wish our school board would drop all of the social and political stuff, and only focus kn the core school mission of literacy, math, science and academics/arts.

One of the gold standards for professional and social interactions is that you NEVER discuss politics, religion, sex or race with others who are not your intimate circle.

Our fcps has decided their mission is to put our poor teachers in a situation where they have to not only talk about, but promote and inject into their lessons, those hot button issues of politics, religion, sex and race every single day, whether they want to or not.

The school board knows these issues and themes are going be controversial. They know that no matter what position is taken, someone, somewhere is going to be offended, enraged, and activated.

Yet the school board makes incorporating hot button social issues into every facet of the curriculum and school culture their entire focus. Why on earth would the leadership do this to the teachers.

Imagine going into work every single day, knowing that your boss and company leadership are going to make you say things, do things and articulate positions that are 100% guaranteed to make one or many of your clients blow their top, send you angry emails, go to your supervisors, blast you online, or go to the media??

We are talking about people who went into their profession because they like to have reading time on the rug or do art projects. Who spend all summer finding interesting ways to talk about Shakespeare. Who are math geeks or history fanatics. Who are teaching because they want to coach football. Or who just want summer vacation and two weeks off at Christmas.

Yet every single day, they have to go to work knowing that our Gatehouse, superintendent and school board are hard at work on finding ways to incorporate the latest social fad or political controversy as The. Most. Important. focus of FCPS. Not literacy. Not math. Not life skills or trades.

What dread our teachers must have going into work, not knowing when or which day the leaders are going to decree from high the next fad social political idea that teachers are going to have to field, knowing that these idiotic decisions from leadership are going to get them yelled at by some parent, somewhere, who is very justifiably upset that their kids are being taught controversial things that have nothing to do with the subjects being taught, are not age appropriate and not what the teacher signed up to teach.

No one, no where, would be able to handle that constant work stress that teachers are having to manage thanks to our school board and old superintedent.

It is not surprising that many of them are quitting.

They aren't being allowed to do the job they were hired to do, and their bosses are regularly creating duties that are going to get the teachers yelled at.

You are clueless if you really think any of this has anything to do with teachers in Fairfax County quitting. Did the school board suddenly become radically different and radically "politically correct" just this year? Of course not.

The teacher shortage is a nationwide crisis, primarily caused by crazed parents who did nothing but complain about teachers and school closings during the pandemic. Teachers aren't paid enough anywhere in the country to put up will any of your bullshit.

+10000 No one is forced to say anything. That is ridiculous. I have been in FCPS for 12 years and I have never been mandated to discuss co teoversial topics or talk about sex or religion or whatever. The only minor change is we will be educating kids more this year about the new holidays in the calendar. That is just basic information, not teaching them religion.

The PO before this one is manufacturing controversy where none exists. My friends are leaving the profession because they are burned out, overworked, underpaid, besieged by endless parent emails and endless criticism and even when they work 80 hour weeks they are never done. I literally have never once heard a friend who left the profession in the past two years talk about the SB forcing controversial issues on anyone. Two of my closest friends retired earlier than planned because teaching online was exponentially more work and more stress. Two colleagues from last year both left to be stay at home parents with no intention ever to ever return to the classroom because they had come to hate it so much…micromanaged, constantly getting emails from parents about every little thing, never enough time, endless paperwork. The worst loss was one of our best SpEd teachers. Pay isn’t even the biggest issue. It’s that the job is 3x more work than it was 25 years ago, with no commensurate rise in satisfaction or recognition or compensation.

This. This is why teachers are leaving. I am a long-time teacher who has been in and out of full-time teaching over the last 30 years. The pay used to be worth the extra weeks off and the satisfaction of doing something that made a difference, but now the job has expanded with extra tasks that take away time from planning and prepping for actual teaching. This means fewer fun, interesting and engaging lessons, so the kids lose out and the teachers don't like the job anymore.

[Anonymous]

How do we find out if our child's teacher is one of these? I googled my child's teacher and did not see a teaching degree in their linked in profile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we find out if our child's teacher is one of these? I googled my child's teacher and did not see a teaching degree in their linked in profile.

Typical DCUM…

Though I’m hesitant to believe, because all 3 of my kid’s schools aren’t releasing class assignments until next week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The first year, no requirements other than a bachelors. By the end of the year, you’ll have a license, supposedly.

Rumor has it VDOE is 4-5 months backlogged in authorizing provisional licenses, so I assume the plan is to get whatever minimums are required for a provisional done in those 4-5 months.

VDOE is backlogged on all licenses, not just provisionals.

I mailed my licensure renewal packet on January 3, and I received my new license just after Memorial Day, so almost 5 months after I mailed my packet. This was for my sixth license through VDOE, so certainly not for a provisional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we find out if our child's teacher is one of these? I googled my child's teacher and did not see a teaching degree in their linked in profile.

Check the actual VDOE Licensure Query, not a social media site.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do we find out if our child's teacher is one of these? I googled my child's teacher and did not see a teaching degree in their linked in profile.

Typical DCUM…

Though I’m hesitant to believe, because all 3 of my kid’s schools aren’t releasing class assignments until next week.

Well I'm hesitant to believe that you have a brain, so there's that. Lots of schools released teacher names today. Just because your school didn't doesn't mean that others don't. We received teacher assignments today. #sorrynotsorry

Thanks for your non-answer though.

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Anonymous wrote:How do we find out if our child's teacher is one of these? I googled my child's teacher and did not see a teaching degree in their linked in profile.

Check the actual VDOE Licensure Query, not a social media site.

Did you see the part where I specifically asked HOW DO WE FIND OUT IF OUR CHILD'S TEACHER IS ONE OF THESE???

Morons, the lot of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do we find out if our child's teacher is one of these? I googled my child's teacher and did not see a teaching degree in their linked in profile.

Check the actual VDOE Licensure Query, not a social media site.

Did you see the part where I specifically asked HOW DO WE FIND OUT IF OUR CHILD'S TEACHER IS ONE OF THESE???

Morons, the lot of you.

NP

If they have a license it will show up in the database.

If they don’t, they won’t.

I don’t think the pp who suggested the Brie site is the moron

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do we find out if our child's teacher is one of these? I googled my child's teacher and did not see a teaching degree in their linked in profile.

Check the actual VDOE Licensure Query, not a social media site.

Did you see the part where I specifically asked HOW DO WE FIND OUT IF OUR CHILD'S TEACHER IS ONE OF THESE???

Morons, the lot of you.

NP

If they have a license it will show up in the database.

If they don’t, they won’t.

I don’t think the pp who suggested the Brie site is the moron

The only problem is that the brand new teachers may not be in the database yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do we find out if our child's teacher is one of these? I googled my child's teacher and did not see a teaching degree in their linked in profile.

Check the actual VDOE Licensure Query, not a social media site.

Did you see the part where I specifically asked HOW DO WE FIND OUT IF OUR CHILD'S TEACHER IS ONE OF THESE???

Morons, the lot of you.

DP. The moron is the one who didn't understand the PP's answer.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Real teachers at FCPS are a joke anyway so whatever.

Sounds like you should go to private