They found that alternatively certified and
uncertified teachers did less well in producing student achievement initially than did certified teachers, but that most of the differences disappeared by the third year of teaching.
Not exact matches
First, allowing
uncertified individuals to become
teachers does not mean that they must be viewed as «completed» professionals.
During a discussion on
teacher quality, I cited my son's amazing math
teacher, Iftimie Simion, as an example of how «
uncertified» doesn't necessarily mean «unqualified.»
This suggests that private schools may slightly prefer
uncertified teachers and that charter schools probably have less demand for them than public schools
do.
Second, we didn't just compare TFA
teachers with the Houston district's other new hires, a fair share of whom are
uncertified and didn't attend a traditional education school (though not nearly as many as NCTAF claims).
Although this program
does assign
uncertified recruits as
teachers of record, it also requires them to enroll concurrently in a master's degree program focusing on teaching and learning.
Everything they
do has the singular goal of dismantling public education and opening the schools to untrained,
uncertified teachers.»
Yet, at the same time lawmakers assert that they plan to strengthen the state's ability to address the problem, they have weakened their ability to
do so by allowing more
uncertified teachers into the classroom.
They
did so by hiring inexperienced and
uncertified teachers, with the result that one - quarter of the black students in high - poverty schools had a first - or second - year
teacher, and nearly 30 % had a
teacher who was not fully certified.
Teacher certification arises as another common sticking point in any discussion about charters, which generally get more leeway to hire more uncertified and nonunion teachers, which they say lets them recruit people who don't come from the usual teacher - education
Teacher certification arises as another common sticking point in any discussion about charters, which generally get more leeway to hire more
uncertified and nonunion
teachers, which they say lets them recruit people who don't come from the usual
teacher - education
teacher - education tracks.
If we don't value ourselves as dedicated, committed, well - educated professionals with deep subject matter expertise and rich pedagogical abilities and understandings, then why be surprised when the reformers suggest that veteran
teachers can be replaced with
uncertified, unqualified Teach for America recruits bolstered by a mere 5 week summer boot camp's worth of «training»?