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Anonymous wrote:500 teachers needed one week before school. FCPS will fill classrooms with unskilled workers who don’t know the subject they are hired to teach and pay them $48K/year instead of paying up for real teachers.

SB in a race to the bottom.

No, it's the money, the micromanagement and the terrible student behaviors. I'm a few years in and decided to give it another year but this may be my last.

Wow, I can’t believe they are starting this now. Other counties have had similar programs for years. Those include a month of summer courses and summer school teaching as a sort of student teaching, if I remember correctly. Hiring someone this late is going to be interesting.

On the other hand, I don’t think they have many options and presumably someone who wants to be a teacher long term will be better than a stream of subs.

These people will get little support. Few people want to serve as mentors. They are already overloaded and the stipend is a few hundred $. Will FCPS help find the classes they need? This sounds more like, “You get the job, now figure the rest out on your own”.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, PP, it’s going to be a bloodbath. I hope these poor newbies are set up with solid mentor teachers (who are in some way compensated because this is going to be a lot of work for them too!)

People gripe about the support specialists (e.g., coaches) not being in the classroom, but these are the people who are going to be tapped to handle a lot of these 'on the work' training folks--there's just too many to be absorbed by mentor teachers who have their own dedicated classes. It's not just the teacher resident positions, but also all the long-term subs and provisional license hires that are not experienced (there are some provisional license hires that are--but some that are still in their teacher ed programs). They will be helping them with classroom management issues, with data reporting, with meeting their license requirements, doing the required observations etc. My guess is that they will each be assigned at least 5 newbies (at various schools) and spend a day with each in their classes co-teaching and helping plan for the rest of the week. Depending on numbers they might be assigned more. In schools where there are a lot of newbies they might not have to travel school to school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:500 teachers needed one week before school. FCPS will fill classrooms with unskilled workers who don’t know the subject they are hired to teach and pay them $48K/year instead of paying up for real teachers.

SB in a race to the bottom.

It's not the SB, there is a national shortage. If anything blame VDOE wgo set requirements. It's bugger than the SB.

Anonymous wrote:500 teachers needed one week before school. FCPS will fill classrooms with unskilled workers who don’t know the subject they are hired to teach and pay them $48K/year instead of paying up for real teachers.

SB in a race to the bottom.

Time for gen ed kids to enjoy what sped kids have gotten for years now-completely unqualified "teachers"

Anonymous wrote:I look forward to seeing the numbers on how many of these hires make it until June. Being a first year teacher is tough even when you have taken classes and done student teaching and a huge percentage leave within the first 3 years. The positions many of these people are going into are at poorly managed schools or schools with a large number of new teachers with few veterans to mentor them. While people poke fun of education classes, they provide a framework to think through how to handle various classroom scenarios, educational psychology background, and intensive mentoring through student teaching. <b>I cannot imagine being hired to teach physics because of my biology bachelors degree, which it sounds like might happen because the requirements seem to be any bachelors degree. And being hired to do so a week before school starts with no training…</b>they won’t even get Great Beginnings, the new teacher induction program, because that was this week!

Untrained teachers hired to teach what they don’t know.

Yeah, PP, it’s going to be a bloodbath. I hope these poor newbies are set up with solid mentor teachers (who are in some way compensated because this is going to be a lot of work for them too!)

I look forward to seeing the numbers on how many of these hires make it until June. Being a first year teacher is tough even when you have taken classes and done student teaching and a huge percentage leave within the first 3 years. The positions many of these people are going into are at poorly managed schools or schools with a large number of new teachers with few veterans to mentor them. While people poke fun of education classes, they provide a framework to think through how to handle various classroom scenarios, educational psychology background, and intensive mentoring through student teaching. I cannot imagine being hired to teach physics because of my biology bachelors degree, which it sounds like might happen because the requirements seem to be any bachelors degree. And being hired to do so a week before school starts with no training…they won’t even get Great Beginnings, the new teacher induction program, because that was this week!

The first year, no requirements other than a bachelors. By the end of the year, you’ll have a license, supposedly.

Rumor has it VDOE is 4-5 months backlogged in authorizing provisional licenses, so I assume the plan is to get whatever minimums are required for a provisional done in those 4-5 months.

500 teachers needed one week before school. FCPS will fill classrooms with unskilled workers who don’t know the subject they are hired to teach and pay them $48K/year instead of paying up for real teachers.

It requires nothing except a bachelor's degree and the ability to pass a background check.

Nope.

Does it require a passing score on the Praxis II test to teach the subject?