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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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From: LindyBill6/3/2005 10:38:51 AM
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Here's a healthy trend.
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Nearly a third of newly certified schoolteachers who taught for the first time this year did not graduate from education colleges but were licensed through alternate routes that are gaining momentum in many states, according to a report issued yesterday by the National Center for Education Information.
About 35,000 new teachers this year are former professionals or military personnel, mostly older than 30, who made a midcareer change to go into the classroom, said the report by C. Emily Feistritzer, president and chief executive officer of the federally funded National Center for Alternative Certification.

This is all to the good. I think that new teachers can learn all they need from education classes in one summer seminar that would cover topics such as lesson planning, classroom discipline, and grading methods. The rest comes from experience and learning from teachers in action. There was so much that was totally worthless in all the education courses I had to take in order to get certified. I know that almost every certified teacher I've talked to feels the same way. One of the many blessings of working at a charter school is that we have much more leeway in hiring teachers who have knowledge of the subject matter, although no teacher certification. Once they're hired, they can take a few courses and get certified through alternative routes. As states face more and more teacher shortages, the strangehold grip that education schools have had on teacher hiring will be loosened. And the more teachers who come to teaching through alternate routes and succeed the less necessary education school training will seem. Bravo."
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