Not just traditional certification or
even alternative certification, but ANY certification.
Not exact matches
Some suggest fast - tracking
alternative certification for second career professionals, but others wonder,
Even if the career professionals know their subjects, can they teach them?
Nontraditional candidates - namely recent college graduates and career changers who haven't attended a standard teacher - preparation program - often encounter serious roadblocks,
even with the state's full endorsement of
alternative certification programs that allow -LSB-...]
Even in states that appear to offer a bypass around
certification, these
alternative programs are structured so that retrofitting - taking education coursework while teaching - is almost always required.
Freitag soon discovered The Fairfax Transition to Teaching Partnership, an
alternative certification program based at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Students spend one year interning at a Fairfax County (Virginia) public school — substituting, observing, assisting teachers, and working with students one - on - one and in small groups — and take summer and
evening courses required for
certification.
We continue to expanding our reach to include
even more traditional and
alternative certification programs.
You're considered to have received full state
certification even if you received your
certification through
alternative routes to
certification or by passing the state teacher licensing examination.
As classroom teachers, we know that
even as our training experiences vary from traditional to
alternative certification, one aspect among them is common: quality preparation is critical, yet not consistently received.
Some of the options other than academies that are available to fund are teacher residency programs, induction programs, improving equitable access to a diverse teaching staff and effective teachers, integrating technology into the curriculum and instruction, and — yes —
even establishing, expanding, or improving
alternative routes to
certification.
Although some preparation programs require that students complete as many as 600 clinical training hours through student teaching, other programs — which are all low - quality
alternative certification programs — report that their students did not complete any clinical training hours.25
Even the most intensive teacher preparation experiences pale in comparison with the 10,000 hours of deliberate practice that researchers say are needed to develop expertise in any given field.26 While there are isolated examples of excellent clinical residency models that provide students with ample time to practice their skills in a classroom setting, 27 there is not an entire system that supports this approach.
Furthermore, more experienced educators and policymakers lament the proliferation of
alternative certification pathways like TFA because they believe they de-professionalize teaching
even further (Milner, 2013).
This will allow companies to make their existing range of smart home devices compatible with Apple's framework,
even if they were created without MFi
certification or use
alternative networking protocols such as ZigBee or Z - Wave.