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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And I meant it made sense for high school because they can skip the education degree part. [/quote]

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).[/quote]

Isn't there a curriculum, and all the teachers have to teach the same thing out of the same text or work books?[/quote]

Ummm, no.[/quote]

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