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14-10-2022, 07:42 AM
By TALIA RICHMAN and TRISHA POWELL CRAIN
today
As schools across the South grapple with teacher shortages, many are turning to candidates without teaching certificates or formal training.
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Decisions to put a teacher without traditional training in charge of a classroom involve weighing tradeoffs: Is it better to hire uncertified candidates, even if they aren’t fully prepared, or instruct children in classes that are crowded or led by substitutes?
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analysis of 2019-20 data in 11 states found roughly 4% of teachers were uncertified or teaching with an emergency certification. In addition, 10% were teaching out of field, which means, for example, they may be certified to teach high school English but assigned to a middle school math class.
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By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher
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n Texas, ...... In the 2011-12 school year, fewer than 7% of the state’s new teachers — roughly 1,600 — didn’t have a certification. By last year, about 8,400 of the state’s nearly 43,000 new hires were uncertified.
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In Alabama, nearly 2,000 of the state’s 47,500 teachers didn’t hold a full certificate in 2020-21
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And almost 7% of Alabama teachers were in classrooms outside of their certification fields
Much more at: https://apnews.com/article/science-texas...5c24f418a5
today
As schools across the South grapple with teacher shortages, many are turning to candidates without teaching certificates or formal training.
......
Decisions to put a teacher without traditional training in charge of a classroom involve weighing tradeoffs: Is it better to hire uncertified candidates, even if they aren’t fully prepared, or instruct children in classes that are crowded or led by substitutes?
......
analysis of 2019-20 data in 11 states found roughly 4% of teachers were uncertified or teaching with an emergency certification. In addition, 10% were teaching out of field, which means, for example, they may be certified to teach high school English but assigned to a middle school math class.
......
By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher
......
n Texas, ...... In the 2011-12 school year, fewer than 7% of the state’s new teachers — roughly 1,600 — didn’t have a certification. By last year, about 8,400 of the state’s nearly 43,000 new hires were uncertified.
......
In Alabama, nearly 2,000 of the state’s 47,500 teachers didn’t hold a full certificate in 2020-21
......
And almost 7% of Alabama teachers were in classrooms outside of their certification fields
Much more at: https://apnews.com/article/science-texas...5c24f418a5
