Virginia’s Teacher Shortages – Alternatives in Teacher Preparation and Recruitment
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7 responses to “Virginia’s Teacher Shortages – Alternatives in Teacher Preparation and Recruitment”
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Teach for America has a good reputation. I have known a few of their participants.
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Whether it’s doctors or teachers , a simple thing is to pay their school debt in exchange for some number of years of service – in a place that is short of and in need of that occupation.
Or… offer any kid in High School a free-ride scholarship to a teaching degree with some years of service required after.
Youngkin says we need to change the way we use higher ed to develop a workforce.
I cannot imagine a higher priority than trargetting the teacher shortage.
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Virginia used to have such a program. My wife got teacher education scholarships. Each year’s scholarship could be “paid” off by teaching in a Virginia school division.
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No more? Why? It seems like a reasonable approach.
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I started today here on a series of columns with the end goal of burying Virginia’s education schools.
They are the objects of scorn even at their own universities .
I intend to bury them with their own shovels – the quality of education data they agreed to collect from graduates and schools that hire them for their regular recertification by the state.
They thought no one would ever pay attention to that data. Bad guess.
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Wrong approach Sherlock. You can’t sink the ship, you need to turn it.
You’re a Captain. You know that they don’t burn ships in the Navy that don’t perform. They fix them.
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Because of teacher shortages, we have an opportunity to bypass the schools of education by granting that any holder of a substantive 4 year college degree may teach in a Virginia public school. Private schools do not require certification and I haven’t noticed that such schools fail to graduate literate and numerate citizens. This could be combined with a push to refocus on the teaching of standard disciplines, recognizable by anyone, and reduce emphasis on classroom therapy usually described as “social and emotional learning.”
It is possible to determine whether a student has acquired standard discipline knowledge. Not so with SEL, the results of which, if any, are wholly unaccountable.
Sounds like TFA is already a step in this direction but it is not only inner city schools that have need of better teachers.
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