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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/13/teacher-requirements-shortage-jobs/

Concerning trend to reduce qualifications and just fill classrooms this year

Luckily not a problem at our school this year.

It's September. You have no way of knowing what it will look like after winter break.

I’m back. It’s March and our school composition looks exactly the same as it did in September. Not a single teacher has left during the year at any of my kids’ schools. We had two teachers on maternity leave with long term subs in place too, but the teachers are back now.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/13/teacher-requirements-shortage-jobs/

Concerning trend to reduce qualifications and just fill classrooms this year

Luckily not a problem at our school this year.

It's September. You have no way of knowing what it will look like after winter break.

Anonymous wrote:Can they come back again in the same teacher training job if they cannot pass the test this year

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

Is there any deadline to take the exam?

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

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Anonymous wrote:This is a nationwide issue. Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem. Rooms will still be without teachers. I say, bring the warm bodies and then train them. At this point, we just need bodies. Let’s be honest, it’s not difficult to teach. You are given a curriculum which is a guide book. Plus, everything is available to you online.

Wait, what? There’s a curriculum?! Where do I get this? (/s)

I’m going into year 13 and have never had more than a bullet point list of standards. Methinks you know not of what you speak.

But I do agree the most you can hope for at this point is a legal adult in every classroom.

Exactly. The “curriculum” in this case would probably be assignments that are created by other teachers on the team that said team has had to coach the teacher through. And then will be graded by said team when the teacher either leaves or gets overwhelmed when they realize that they have no idea how to grade against the standard. And thus accelerates the burn out cycle of the experienced teacher. What has to give here is all of the extras that have been placed on teachers since the early 2000s. Let teachers teach and collaborate in an organic way, trust that they went to school to do this,’and let them do their jobs with relative autonomy. The alternative is this…hiring people with zero background in teaching and insane teacher turnover rates.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a nationwide issue. Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem. Rooms will still be without teachers. I say, bring the warm bodies and then train them. At this point, we just need bodies. Let’s be honest, it’s not difficult to teach. You are given a curriculum which is a guide book. Plus, everything is available to you online.

Hahaha - you go in and do it. Won't last the 1st quarter.

"Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem." - hmm, let's try that out and see how it goes. Who knows, it could maybe work?!

If I decide to go teach tech in a classroom, your kid will be learning practical life skills. They will be learning about how to manage their future lives in an online world by creating scenario where they are married with a couple kids, with end goal being learning how to completely manage balancing their budgets, buying/renting housing, etc. In a more proficient classroom, they will be learning how to design a website and how to use free tools out there to code it, because those tools are now pretty much drag and drop, and lots of fun. Kids can focus on ‘prettying’ up their site. Companies do not usually re-invent the wheel and use these tools, and they are often free to educators. My goal will be to give your kids practical skills that are useful in the real world, using technology as a resource to get there.

Too much teaching these days is of abstract concepts and do not prepare a kid for their future. That’s true of college as well. If you can’t manage your LIFE, you can’t succeed.

My ES kids have learned how to design websites, do powerpoint presentations etc. in their 1x a week computer class. There are tons of voc ed tech classes at MS and HS. You just don't know what is actually going on in schools.

Then why don't these kids succeed at life? Instead, they are chasing 'the best colleges' and taking classes in gender studies. My kids were in the publics and there were no classes that taught them anything practical. I pulled them to privates.

What life skills did they get in the privates?

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Anonymous wrote:This is a nationwide issue. Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem. Rooms will still be without teachers. I say, bring the warm bodies and then train them. At this point, we just need bodies. Let’s be honest, it’s not difficult to teach. You are given a curriculum which is a guide book. Plus, everything is available to you online.

Hahaha - you go in and do it. Won't last the 1st quarter.

"Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem." - hmm, let's try that out and see how it goes. Who knows, it could maybe work?!

If I decide to go teach tech in a classroom, your kid will be learning practical life skills. They will be learning about how to manage their future lives in an online world by creating scenario where they are married with a couple kids, with end goal being learning how to completely manage balancing their budgets, buying/renting housing, etc. In a more proficient classroom, they will be learning how to design a website and how to use free tools out there to code it, because those tools are now pretty much drag and drop, and lots of fun. Kids can focus on ‘prettying’ up their site. Companies do not usually re-invent the wheel and use these tools, and they are often free to educators. My goal will be to give your kids practical skills that are useful in the real world, using technology as a resource to get there.

Too much teaching these days is of abstract concepts and do not prepare a kid for their future. That’s true of college as well. If you can’t manage your LIFE, you can’t succeed.

My ES kids have learned how to design websites, do powerpoint presentations etc. in their 1x a week computer class. There are tons of voc ed tech classes at MS and HS. You just don't know what is actually going on in schools.

Then why don't these kids succeed at life? Instead, they are chasing 'the best colleges' and taking classes in gender studies. My kids were in the publics and there were no classes that taught them anything practical. I pulled them to privates.

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Anonymous wrote:Our math teacher resident has work experience but no teaching experience. He is having a hard time doing HS math.

We have 2 and I’ll be shocked if they make it to January. One is clearly very knowledgeable in the subject matter but can neither communicate it to students or manage a classroom. The other… basically just a warm body.

Anonymous wrote:Our math teacher resident has work experience but no teaching experience. He is having a hard time doing HS math.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/13/teacher-requirements-shortage-jobs/

Concerning trend to reduce qualifications and just fill classrooms this year

Luckily not a problem at our school this year.