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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think teachers get a bad rap because there is a low bar to becoming a teacher. The excellent teachers are few and far between. Many young college graduates go into teaching because they don’t know what else to do or can’t get another job. They don’t go into it because they love teaching. Then they complain constantly because they really don’t want to work that hard. Lots of weird folk in the teaching profession. [/quote]

I work in a Title 1 that has quite a few new teachers. They are usually our interns the previous year so they know what they are signing up for. This helps a lot with retention. I think teacher prep programs need to start early on in college and let students have multiple opportunities to spend time in various classrooms prior to committing to student teaching. If their first exposure to a real classroom isn’t until their junior year, it is very late for them to change their mind about teaching. They also need to let them have a variety of experiences because they never know where they may get a job. They need to spend time in a Title 1 school sometime during their student teaching experiences. I spent my entire year student teaching in one grade. One classroom. I got out of it that I didn’t want to teach that grade. The teachers in my school are fantastic. The duds don’t last long because they don’t want to do that much work. We might get a dud once every few years and then they leave. [/quote]

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