Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had over 500 open positions one week before school started. It was a no experience needed job for anyone with a college degree and there were no real interviews. Admin need to make this a real teacher training program for next year with requirement to pass Praxis before school starts or it will be joke again.

HS Teacher.

Do teacher residents take praxis 2 for provisional license to come back for next year

Any teachers know which good test prep books or websites to use for STEM subject praxis exams?

Start with the free online info to make your study plan and you can take one online practice test from ETS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had over 500 open positions one week before school started. It was a no experience needed job for anyone with a college degree and there were no real interviews. Admin need to make this a real teacher training program for next year with requirement to pass Praxis before school starts or it will be joke again.

HS Teacher.

Do teacher residents take praxis 2 for provisional license to come back for next year

Any teachers know which good test prep books or websites to use for STEM subject praxis exams?

Which test will you be taking? Each test has a number assigned.

If you have a teaching mentor ask help with resources and prep plan.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had over 500 open positions one week before school started. It was a no experience needed job for anyone with a college degree and there were no real interviews. Admin need to make this a real teacher training program for next year with requirement to pass Praxis before school starts or it will be joke again.

HS Teacher.

Do teacher residents take praxis 2 for provisional license to come back for next year

Any teachers know which good test prep books or websites to use for STEM subject praxis exams?

Anonymous wrote:We had over 500 open positions one week before school started. It was a no experience needed job for anyone with a college degree and there were no real interviews. Admin need to make this a real teacher training program for next year with requirement to pass Praxis before school starts or it will be joke again.

HS Teacher.

Do teacher residents take praxis 2 for provisional license to come back for next year

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our last remaining teacher resident quit yesterday. Despite having lots of “real world” experience in his subject area, he couldn’t make it past 7 months. Maybe teaching isn’t as easy as the keyboard warriors suggest?

I think any career transition is difficult. The ones who do it successfully are the ones who transition in their I’m still moldable 20’s or the I don’t give 2F’s I’m doing it for the cheap insurance late 50s.

Switching careers is very difficult for most people for the same reasons a mid career teacher moving out would flounder and probably fail in the corporate world.

Teaching is a job just like any other job. Period.

NO!!! PERIOD!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our last remaining teacher resident quit yesterday. Despite having lots of “real world” experience in his subject area, he couldn’t make it past 7 months. Maybe teaching isn’t as easy as the keyboard warriors suggest?

Of course. If as they say, “it’s babysitting and summers off, for 70k,” there’d be a line out the door to get hired.

Even the subs look scared straight by the end of the day. No one is lining up for this job and what they did with resident teaches is embarrassing. Those poor residents were expected to do everything teachers do and take less pay. We lost two...I can't blame them at all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our last remaining teacher resident quit yesterday. Despite having lots of “real world” experience in his subject area, he couldn’t make it past 7 months. Maybe teaching isn’t as easy as the keyboard warriors suggest?

I think any career transition is difficult. The ones who do it successfully are the ones who transition in their I’m still moldable 20’s or the I don’t give 2F’s I’m doing it for the cheap insurance late 50s.

Switching careers is very difficult for most people for the same reasons a mid career teacher moving out would flounder and probably fail in the corporate world.

Teaching is a job just like any other job. Period.

Obviously it isn't if nearly half of teachers quit by year 5. Maybe somebody should look upstream to figure out why. Just ask a teacher. They will make a nice long list.

The percent of teachers who quit within the first 5 years (often cited as 44%) is not exactly what it seems--it includes people who didn't get their contract renewed in their district, people who left for maternity leave and returned later (or decided to be a SAHP) and also includes private school teachers who didn't invest much in terms of getting licenses or whatever so may not have been that committed to the teaching field (it's not uncommon for recent liberal arts college grads to teach at a private school for a few years before grad school). I think we need to pay attention to teachers' needs and support retention, but it's also important to look at data and trends accurately. This is especially important if we want to understand whether conditions are worsening and causing more teachers to leave (anecdotally this is true, but the data hasn't shown it yet--but it may--it takes a while to get the data in a readable format, do the analyses etc.). The other complication is that there are fewer children now, so we are starting to need fewer teachers. We're at a weird time where the US birthrate peaked in 2007 and then fell and continued to fall. We currently have schools that include the highest birthrate year and then steadily falling ones--particularly hard to staff. But it's all declining birth rate years from 8th grade and younger at this point.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our last remaining teacher resident quit yesterday. Despite having lots of “real world” experience in his subject area, he couldn’t make it past 7 months. Maybe teaching isn’t as easy as the keyboard warriors suggest?

I think any career transition is difficult. The ones who do it successfully are the ones who transition in their I’m still moldable 20’s or the I don’t give 2F’s I’m doing it for the cheap insurance late 50s.

Switching careers is very difficult for most people for the same reasons a mid career teacher moving out would flounder and probably fail in the corporate world.

Teaching is a job just like any other job. Period.

Obviously it isn't if nearly half of teachers quit by year 5. Maybe somebody should look upstream to figure out why. Just ask a teacher. They will make a nice long list.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our last remaining teacher resident quit yesterday. Despite having lots of “real world” experience in his subject area, he couldn’t make it past 7 months. Maybe teaching isn’t as easy as the keyboard warriors suggest?

I think any career transition is difficult. The ones who do it successfully are the ones who transition in their I’m still moldable 20’s or the I don’t give 2F’s I’m doing it for the cheap insurance late 50s.

Switching careers is very difficult for most people for the same reasons a mid career teacher moving out would flounder and probably fail in the corporate world.

Teaching is a job just like any other job. Period.

LOL my office just had a teacher career switcher (10? years as a tracher). She is doing just fine and has consistently reported being much happier away from school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our last remaining teacher resident quit yesterday. Despite having lots of “real world” experience in his subject area, he couldn’t make it past 7 months. Maybe teaching isn’t as easy as the keyboard warriors suggest?

I think any career transition is difficult. The ones who do it successfully are the ones who transition in their I’m still moldable 20’s or the I don’t give 2F’s I’m doing it for the cheap insurance late 50s.

Switching careers is very difficult for most people for the same reasons a mid career teacher moving out would flounder and probably fail in the corporate world.

Teaching is a job just like any other job. Period.

Lol, I jumped from teaching to a corporate world job and the only adjustment I had was how to spend the hours of free time and still look busy. I'd finish the day's tasks by noon and have to wiggle a mouse to stay "active" on teams.

Same! And my husbands insurance is so much cheaper than FCPS’s ever was.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our last remaining teacher resident quit yesterday. Despite having lots of “real world” experience in his subject area, he couldn’t make it past 7 months. Maybe teaching isn’t as easy as the keyboard warriors suggest?

I think any career transition is difficult. The ones who do it successfully are the ones who transition in their I’m still moldable 20’s or the I don’t give 2F’s I’m doing it for the cheap insurance late 50s.

Switching careers is very difficult for most people for the same reasons a mid career teacher moving out would flounder and probably fail in the corporate world.

Teaching is a job just like any other job. Period.

Lol, I jumped from teaching to a corporate world job and the only adjustment I had was how to spend the hours of free time and still look busy. I'd finish the day's tasks by noon and have to wiggle a mouse to stay "active" on teams.

Anonymous wrote:Our last remaining teacher resident quit yesterday. Despite having lots of “real world” experience in his subject area, he couldn’t make it past 7 months. Maybe teaching isn’t as easy as the keyboard warriors suggest?

I think any career transition is difficult. The ones who do it successfully are the ones who transition in their I’m still moldable 20’s or the I don’t give 2F’s I’m doing it for the cheap insurance late 50s.

Switching careers is very difficult for most people for the same reasons a mid career teacher moving out would flounder and probably fail in the corporate world.

Teaching is a job just like any other job. Period.

Anonymous wrote:Our last remaining teacher resident quit yesterday. Despite having lots of “real world” experience in his subject area, he couldn’t make it past 7 months. Maybe teaching isn’t as easy as the keyboard warriors suggest?

Of course. If as they say, “it’s babysitting and summers off, for 70k,” there’d be a line out the door to get hired.

Our last remaining teacher resident quit yesterday. Despite having lots of “real world” experience in his subject area, he couldn’t make it past 7 months. Maybe teaching isn’t as easy as the keyboard warriors suggest?

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. 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!

Even the teaching resident with other job experience forget their subject and cannot manage a classroom. They need a new teacher nduction program for this summer.

HS Math Teacher.