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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes that is the problem and brand new teachers who have all the education and credentials don’t know how to do that either. They don’t do a good job of teaching it during college so they have to learn in the job from experienced teachers (and it’s freaking hard so a lot of them never do it well).

And don’t tell me a new teacher has never cried because they were overwhelmed. That is a normal thing to do.[/quote]

But the new teachers who have been through a licensure program have the theoretical understanding and the child development knowledge as a starting point. They have also had months of student teaching to learn the very basics. Someone with none of that is going to be a trainwreck and the experienced teachers are not going to do a single thing to support unlicensed and untrained people in teaching positions. [/quote]

Sadly a lot of the child development they learn is outdated and wrong. I do think that something like student teaching is very important. I think it would be very bad if experienced teachers didn't support those who became licensed through non-traditional paths. I don't know why they wouldn't do that? Spite? [/quote]

What do you mean by “support”? I “support” people who are equipped at a baseline with content mastery and an understanding of children and their needs and the legal requirements of our job to become teachers even as career switchers. But even they have education hours and courses they have to take and that’s for a good reason. I would not support any random person walking into a classroom out of the military with zero other education training or specific content knowledge and just being allowed to “teach” because they wouldn’t be. They don’t know how. Teaching is not just handing out papers and babysitting. And more often than not, “supporting” those kinds of career switchers would look like actual teachers having to coach, mentor, and provide materials and resources for the career switchers while not being paid anything additional for it. You don’t think admin is doing that do you? [/quote]

+1 Having to coddle and train unqualified people makes the job of teaching and other professional positions even more difficult. You're not paid to coach and mentor these unqualified people and you're likely doing it after hours since there's no time in the school day. Unfortunately, this has become typical since the pandemic. It's a downward spiral.[/quote]

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