What utter nonsense. People at a university require PH.D and CC all require Masters. K-12 only needs a bachelors degree, with some classes for a teaching credential.
The so called classes they must take each year is just a few classes over the summer, like 2 weeks of classes. I actually have family members who are teachers.
alot of this is wrong. You can teach in college with a bacehlors degree, even at a major university, like the one I work at. You wont be a professor, you will be adjunct staff or something like that, but you are teaching college classes
the so called classes they have to take can be a wide variety. some conferences and workshops will count towards credit for sure. but college classes will also do that.
I beleive the state of new york requires a masters degree by the time you want to renew your teaching certification for the first time, which is 3 or 4 years after its first issued
I have a bachelors not related to the IT field and yet was talked to about teaching a class at my local CC where I took some classes
Ok, thanks Teach.
A 2 year certification, a 4 month internship and a background check would be more than enough for K-9 grades.
yes all these complaints about shitty teachers and your solution is to lower the bar
though it would flood the market even more than it already is causing more competition, but the issue is bad teachers with tenure...
No K-12 teachers only need to be proficient in the subject they are teaching. Most classes are not taught by graduate students, most are taught by professors. T.A may lead discussion sessions or labs, but they do not teach the classes.
depends on the major, and the school.
when I was in business, all the big classes were really taught by the grad students, the professor would lecture and not really take the questions, and the onus was on the grad student running you lab section to actually teach the material. but IMO the person interacting with you and the material is the teacher, not the guy on stage stroking his ego for 50 minutes a week
when I transferred to a smaller state school(from ~30k undergrad to 10k undergrad) every class was taught by a professor