I was briefly a "teacher trainee." I left at winter break because I received absolutely zero help with disruptive students. Admin simply didn't want to know about it and expected teachers to deal with the disruptions while also trying to teach a classroom full of kids.

I also received zero training for report cards, yet was expected to do them, plan curriculum, have conferences with parents, keep order in a very unruly classroom, and get paid almost nothing. So, I left. Glad I tried it though; I almost decided to go back to school and get my teaching certificate first. The whole experience was traumatic and nothing I would ever repeat, but it did save me thousands of dollars.

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Anonymous wrote:It's our area's way of "fully staffing" schools with folks who have no training.

I give it 10 years until the majority of teachers come in alternatively. Nobody is majoring in it anymore.

I recall being in high school and my teachers being former lawyers, corporate people, etc that just got tired and wanted to do something different. It's not necessarily bad.

Anonymous wrote:It's our area's way of "fully staffing" schools with folks who have no training.

I give it 10 years until the majority of teachers come in alternatively. Nobody is majoring in it anymore.

Anonymous wrote:It's our area's way of "fully staffing" schools with folks who have no training.

Seems that way. Warm bodies?

Anonymous wrote:The one my child had left in the middle of the year, so there's that.

That is not good. What happened as a result?

Anonymous wrote:The one my child had left in the middle of the year, so there's that.

Alternative certification programs have a high drop out rate. Most of these candidates are going to title ones, have a ton of “mentorship and coaching” that adds to the workload, they have to study for tests and taking classes online after school and complete regular teacher duties.

It's our area's way of "fully staffing" schools with folks who have no training.

It's for people with a college degree but no teaching certification. It's a learn on the job type program.

The one my child had left in the middle of the year, so there's that.

It means the teacher is learning on the job like a student teacher but without any prior training or supervision. Welcome to the new normal in education.

Link to the information:

https://www.fcps.edu/teacher-trainee

Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with teacher trainees? Has anyone ever had experience with one? Good or bad? What would compel someone to want to be a trainee?

I didn’t love the one at the school that I taught at. She’d wad a long-term sub for a decade and decided to become a teacher trainee. I always found her personality to be a bit too abrasive, but it is an alternative path to become a certified teacher.

This is an alternative way to get your teaching license. I believe you just have to have any degree and they take courses while they are teaching and they have a certain amount of time to do testing. You immediately have access to the healthcare and benefits all of the other teachers have and it’s salaried so that it what puts it above subbing. Some are great some are not, many are former subs, IAs, coming from privates or charters, or SAHMs coming back to work and some are just straight up random.

You mean a student teacher?

What's the deal with teacher trainees? Has anyone ever had experience with one? Good or bad? What would compel someone to want to be a trainee?