State board moves new teacher licensing rules forward
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Comment: Last week in the Courier, Tony Bennett revealed some new rules for becoming a teacher.
Here’s a look at the new rules Bennett wants:
- Any licensed teacher who passes a leadership test could become a principal, and anyone — education background or not — who possesses a master's degree and passes a leadership test could become a superintendent.
- Those working in different fields could become teachers by completing a certification program offered by the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence, rather than taking university education classes.
***Those studying to become teachers will spend less time on education courses and more time on content areas. Secondary education teachers would major in the subject they wish to teach and minor in education, while elementary teachers could major or minor in education, but also must major or minor in a content area.
- Portfolio and mentor programs for new teachers would be ditched in favor of a simpler teacher residency program, and new teacher licenses would be good for three years, rather than two.
- Teachers would no longer have to take university classes to meet professional development requirements to renew their teaching licenses, a money-saver for many. Instead, classes school districts offer would count.
Comment: My favorite is the one with the asterisk. You can't teach someone to teach. You either can or you can't. Lot's of people go into teaching because they don't have to do anything, and you can become a teacher without knowing anything. I know a woman who is at the University of Evansville in the teacher program who doesn't know what South America is on the world map. And so it continues. Teaching doesn't mean hanging cute things in your classroom or chatting on your cell phone for eight hours straight. My personal opinion is that teachers should teach the first couple of years without textbooks. If they know the material and they know where to find the material, and a teachers is creative enough, he or she will do well. You can't teach if you don't know anything to teach, and that's where we stand with many teachers. Ask a teacher: Which was longer the Renaissance or the Middle Ages? It's not even about history; it's about words. What is a renaissance and what is an age?
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