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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Well how do you support those who have taken courses? I was thinking of a teacher asking "hey I have this specific issue with a student that has me stumped, what would you do?" and then offering advice. I think how much you offer support is 100% dependent on your own boundaries, I just don't know why a teacher would withhold the same support they would give somebody who has taken coursework from somebody who hasn't. It just seems to me like some teachers sort of want to freeze out these newer teachers not just out of their own time and energy constraints, but out of spite. [/quote]

I wouldn’t spitefully withhold support. It’s that what they would require would far, far exceed what I could give. My district deems that new teachers who are licensed should receive at minimum an hour of direct support each week. In my experience, it is closer to three hours per week.. And this is for people who know what the SOLs are, who have practiced writing lesson plans, who have the basics of classroom routines, procedures, and expectations, and know what it means to teach a child to learn to read, write, and do math. They have the basics, but they need to learn how to apply them: when to bump a kid up to the next reading level and when to stay the course, when to address a student behavior privately and when to ignore it, or how to handle the child study process when a concern has arisen.

A new, unlicensed teacher would start at zero. They would be operating based on what they think teaching is, and not on what we know about how kids learn. 
They would need to learn what the content is, how a lesson should be structured, what kinds of assessments are expected and how to construct them, how to create a reliable rubric, what the process of reading actually entails, how to teach math in a way kids understand, what is developmentally appropriate in reading, writing, speaking, and listening, and on and on.

A licensed teacher has read, discussed, thought about, and been critiqued on their ideas about teaching. An unlicensed teacher is a wild card.[/quote]

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