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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you all feel when your kid has an uncertified teacher? Mine has a foreign language teacher with no background, no language degree[/quote]
I think as long as an extensive criminal background check was done, and the teacher has somewhat of a background in whatever course they’re teaching, there shouldn’t be a problem.

Professors, for example, don’t need to be certified teachers to teach, and I don’t have a problem with that either.

I think generally there’s too much red tape to becoming a teacher. Certification may be more necessary for teaching ES, but for MS and up, I don’t think it’s necessary. Isn’t it often trial by fire anyways? You can learn all the teaching theory you want, but what matters is actual classroom time. [/quote]

Yup! I agree with the above. I am a teacher with 15 years experience teaching a world language at a highly selective DC area private high school (with a BA & MA in my language). AFter leaving the classroom during covid due to childcare challenges, I'm considering to apply to teach in MCPS,  but I'm not state certified. I do have lots of teaching experience and am happy to take classes to complete certification, but it's expensive.  I could apply to teach a private again, but I want to be on the same school year schedule as my kids who are in MCPS.

It's a lot of hoops though...lots of paperwork, back and forth, etc to have my transcripts from undergrad & graduate school be evaluated to see which classes I need to take. And I might still have to student teach? And I won't have all my years of experience recognized in the step scale either. Argh.....

Given the shortage of teachers, I'd think they'd try to streamline things a bit for qualified and experienced teachers considering a change to public. [/quote]

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