Sunday, January 28, 2007
Interesting Article
One of the readings I just got from EBSCOHOST keeps coming to mind when I think about this issue. It criticized the tendency to try and fill the gaps in quality educators for high-poverty schools by filling positions with Teach for America volunteers or others who use alternative licensure methods. I think a lot of states fail to appreciate the value of having highly qualified teachers in all their schools. The only way to correct this seems to be to provide greater monetary incentives for teaching in high-poverty schools, and providing grants and scholarships to help teachers meet more demanding licensure requirements. Finding the political will to pay for this seemed unlikely when I was reading this at first, but apparently high rates of teacher attrition costs states 2 billion dollars annually so it a far better use for these funds. I am trying to balance studies of teachers with some literature on policy suggestions to get a better idea of how education policy in the US is impacting teacher development.
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3 comments:
Julia,
It does seem like there are a lot of places that are hiring teachers with the alternative licensing who have never taken an education class before in their life. Is that because licensed teachers do not want to teach in the cities where they are placing these teacheres in poor areas? I think this is an interesting topic to think about.
Thanks Stacy I think that is a good question.
How many of you are going to be seeking jobs in poor schools in the inner-city?
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