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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK PPs.  Surely you know that a teaching career is not a desired profession, right?  If you want the best and the brightest to pursue teaching, then we need to overhaul the salary/prestige/respect/etc. given to teachers these days.  We equate teachers with lower tier professionals, certainly not doctors, lawyers, scientists.  Our bright young minds are being encouraged to pursue careers other than teaching.  Sure, sure, sure, of course there are exceptions to this rule, but on the whole...[/quote]

Teaching in Finland USED to be considered a lower tier profession, but then they made drastic changes for the teacher requirements. It’s as hard to become a teacher over there as it is to become a doctor. And now, their students are among the smartest in the world (without the need for endless studying like other countries). Simply making the profession more selective made it more desirable.

Teachers in Finland ARE paid more than in the US, but only about 20K (depending upon where you are).

So yes, let’s make it more selective (Finland accepts 20% of applicants while the US accepts ANYONE). Let’s pay them more (No, you won’t make as much as a surgeon).

US colleges churn out WAY more teachers than we need. If we make admission standards
MUCH more challenging, we won’t even come close to a teacher shortage. It will probably draw applicants that never would have considered the field otherwise.[/quote]

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