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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They technically do - they run out the good teachers with poor administration and not treating them well and keep the crappy ones.[/quote]
So very true.
Why are those 70 something year olds still playing their dirty games in the office of  teacher recruitment?
So many talented teachers apply to MCPS who never receive any call back for an interview, while classrooms get assigned people with 'emergency certifiations", peope with minimal or no experience in teaching.
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A lot of people with emergency certification are part of partnership programs that MCPS has with local colleges.  These people are often career-changers who may have limited experience in teaching, but more experience in working hard, collaborating with others and learning new things.  They have gotten the most up-to-date education on teaching techniques and strategies, usually with a MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching).  Not saying they won't need support in their first years of teaching, but just to clarify that emergency certification doesn't necessarily equal "possible loser with a pulse."[/quote]

Well in French Immersion or Spanish Immersion, almost every teacher assigned comes with an emergency certification.
There is no shortage of teachers who speak these languages fluently in our area.
I know for a fact that several teachers from Montreal who have been applying to teach immersion classes, and are still waiting to be offered a  position. In one of the elementary schools a few years back, one teacher was a model in her country, another a policeman,  a third supposedly a pharmacist and so on ... all  of them were hired to teach elementary level French immersion. [b]And since they have no education coursework they were given five years to take education classes and pass PRAXIS.[/b][/quote]

So w/in that 5-year span, are they pulling strategies out of their asses?

Here's the problem.  Teaching is not ONLY about content; it's about planning.  You can have a PhD in physics, which doesn't often translate into good instruction.

And I would NEVER hire a teacher just b/c s/he passed the PRAXIS.  I know of several teachers trained in a content who studied for the SPED PRAXIS and passed.  Do you honestly think that they're fully prepared to work with special education students?

It's unbelievable what we let through the gates.

I have two undergraduate degrees that complement each other and a masters in school administration.  My advanced training is also in school improvement, curriculum development, facilitation, and coaching.  So I get the big picture.  And hiring anyone - w/o the training in backward planning/scaffolding, in writing mastery objectives, in determining which strategies best match learners, in identifying learning styles, in  . . . I could go on and in - we do kids a major disservice.

If done right, teaching is THE MOST DIFFICULT job anyone can have.

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