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[quote=Anonymous][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]

My daughter's teachers are likely not certified in her elite private school, but they all have at least masters degrees in their subject area and three of her teachers this year have their PhDs.  I would prefer that over some certified teacher with just a BA in education.  I know of one in particular who has no expertise in history, but teaching history in HS in MCPS as a recent grad with a BA in education (and probably certified).  I don't know, I realize there are some really good teachers in MCPS, but a lot of them suck too.
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