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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Look, I think teachers should have BAs if they are teaching a subject to a higher grade, but ES? I don't know that the BA is as necessary as other skills that military people tend to be indoctrinated with.[/quote]

I've taught middle school and elementary school, everything from special ed to honors classes. You need an understanding of child development to be able to create and implement lessons that meet kids where they are. You need to know what skills they must have mastered before they can tackle other skills. You need to be able to teach kids to think critically to solve problems. They need to be able to determine for themselves whether they've written a sentence that communicates effectively, whether their answer to a math problem is logical or outrageous, whether the sentence they just read makes sense and why characters may act the way they do. They need to be able to develop their own scientific theories and understand what can happen when two substances mix. They grasp the many reasons for the Civil War and understand how our government works. It's so much more than just direct instruction of information, even when the content itself isn't challenging to the average adult. [/quote]

100%!![/quote]

I’m pretty sure at the height of the pandemic, the schools were screaming for parents to volunteer to teach. Challenge accepted. 
Im not sure how creative and deep thinking teachers get to be these days when they are handed curriculum that is so inflexible that it’s lessons in a box which have to be followed. 
Substitutes already were hired with minimal qualifications.

The staff shortages are here. You can’t then choose who to backfill positions with. It’s hire who you can and work with it or close schools and issue vouchers.

What do people expect?[/quote]

I have elementary curriculum that could be taught without a deep knowledge of the subject matter. However, reading the embedded questions without a deep interest in the subject matter or an understanding of the specific pedagogy for my particular subject area will not work well and will hardly inspire young learners. The creativity comes into play when a bright teacher who cares about the subject takes it a few steps further and allows discussions to get pretty deep or creative or far out. That teacher will also bring it to life with hands-on experiences when feasible. Boxed curricula can be spiced up quite a bit to engage students. When time is the limiting factor, I drop some of the least interesting/helpful parts of the set curriculum. [/quote]

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