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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many private schools don't require that their teachers be certified in education, for one thing -- so they can't get hired by public schools.  You can debate whether being certified makes you a better, worse, or more qualified educator, of course -- but that's beside the point.  The point is that if you're not certified you can't get hired by a public school, so you go private. [/quote]

I’ve seen this posted and I’ve corrected this misconception before. For many private schools, this isn’t the case. My school won’t hire teachers who aren’t MSDE certified. Over half the staff transferred from public schools, so certification clearly wasn’t an issue for many anyway. I’m sure there are some privates where certification isn’t required, but for many… it is. We are also observed using the same observation frameworks as the public schools I formerly taught in.[/quote]

What school is this? My husband and I are both private school teachers (one in MD and one in DC) and neither one requires a teaching certificate or even a degree in education. In fact, at my country club style K-8 a teacher asked the HOS if she could list her MSDE certificate in her credentials in the school directory and he replied “No, because then parents will ask why other teachers aren’t certified”. She and I were the only 2 teachers in the entire school with a current teaching certificate.

I know in other states like Texas all teachers have to be certified. Otherwise it seems predatory. Give me your $40-50k and I will give you [b]less[/b] than what you can get for free?[/quote]

It’s a huge honking fallacy to assume that the certification somehow makes a teacher “more”. It’s just false. You would not believe who gets certified. Certification does not measure teaching ability, domain knowledge, or empathy.[/quote]

So you pay your unlicensed doctor more than the licensed ones? Do you pay your unlicensed electrician less than a licensed one? Do you pay your unlicensed Uber driver more than the one with a license? Oh wait, you don’t think of teachers as professionals in the first place. [/quote]

Studies are fairly consistent that a master's degree in education has generally between no impact to a negative impact on teacher effectiveness. I would not expect this to be true of doctors - the profession got put on a more rigorous path in the late 19th century. This didn't happen for education.[/quote]

School psychologist here with many years of experience working in public schools. I absolutely agree that teacher certification (mostly comprised of completing a ridiculously basic Praxis exam) has no bearing on whether or not the teacher can actually teach well! We need to come up with a better system of determining who is a qualified teacher. My Dh is a physician and I do think the medical system has a better grasp of selecting qualified doctors.[/quote]

Wondering if teachers’ actual experience with the subject matter they are teaching is more valuable than teaching degrees?

Also wonder how much teaching in future will be done remotely by have students watch materials presented by the best of the best?[/quote]

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