Growing concern over rise of uncertified teachers in Texas | FOX 7 Austin
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- Concerns are growing over the sharp increase in uncertified teachers working in Texas public schools. Should you be worried about the quality of your child's education? FOX 7's John Krinjak takes a closer look.
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Y’all literally just fired some 10k teachers across the state🎉 act like the dismantling of the educational systems isn’t on purpose 🙊
Exactly
AI with augmented reality will replace them
Let’s go private then. It’ll be better.
@@sphinx11982bro, you are a moron. They can't even afford books and desks.
Why were they fired?
Don’t pay teachers well. Bog them down with too many on-the-job requirements with mountains of paperwork to go with them. Parents tell them how to do their job and what books are allowed. Parents send disrespectful kids to the school who in their eyes can do no wrong. Who wouldn’t want to be a teacher? Similar things happening in nursing.
Google it, 1 in 5 doctors are leaving their profession because of republicans controlling them also. In America we’re losing the battle. Republicans know. I’ll vote for Cheney but never ever trump. Republicans nowadays are fascist. 😢
So true!
I mean to be fair they make decent money in Texas. More than others. This is why I am not going to college. Because the degree will not pay. Also of they don’t like the pay they don’t have to become a teacher.
Bro they have summers off
Porn should not be allowed in school.
If you're not willing to pay a livable salary, you take who you can get.
Nobody should be taking student loans to go to college to become a teacher especially with the huge turnover rate among teachers.
Especially with the shitty pay and disrespect. Florida is hiring vets.
Wished I had realized that back in 2010, I would have saved myself a lot of grief and money.
Sounds like we should focus our efforts in supporting certified teachers and paying them a proper wage.
And giving them a chance to actually teach and impact students instead of managing classrooms and being bogged down with bureaucracy.
Certification doesn't make a teacher smarter or better.
When we have the worst education and scholastic scores of any first world nation and many third world nations are out scoring our kids our teachers should be paying reparations to the pubic, not getting checks.
@@ramonam9251 It sure doesn't tell me they can teach kids..As they can't even pass the teacher exam test. We are talking 5th grade level test here. So if the teacher can't pass a 5th grade level test. I sure don't want them teaching kids.
They are lucky to get teachers at all! Certified or not.
If yours kids and even parent weren’t so DISRESPECTFUL more people would want to take the time to be in the classroom properly.
👏 Preach
Yup, and if administrations weren't so overbloated and overpaid. Admins and board members are out of touch, too. If you want to understand the classrooms...go sub and sub a lot in a lot of different schools and grades.
I can tell you from firsthand experience that Black children are completely out of control and everyone is scared to take action about it and so EVERYBODY LOSES.
Let's discuss pay...they do not pay teachers enough to survive. Government is to blame
Preach!!!
How about actually paying certified teachers a living wage?!Provide childcare for teachers. I’m a certified teacher and I left the classroom because I wanted to prioritize raising my own child. Let alone I could not afford to send my own child to childcare
I’d be a highly qualified teacher to teach in. It’s completely backward.
I think teachers need to be provided benefits similar to the military... basic housing allowance, clothes, and lunch allowances.
@@sdlock83not going to ever happen
@@ShimmySha Well the parents better start learning to homeschool their kids lol!
@@sdlock83A public service federal tax deduction would help, like just give all public educators a sizable tax deduction like 25k and let them keep more money in their bank accounts by taxing less of their income. Would keep more teachers in place and encourage more to enter the field.
This. I desperately wanted to keep teaching, but I couldn't afford to. It didn't pay the bills, and as a mother myself, I really didn't have the option of taking on a second job. I wanted to spend time with my own kid.
Low pay / problem children / questionable parents….what could possibly be the problem??
If that was the problem then why just the average joe breaking the law to be a teacher?
@@Facefully. because they don't understand how bad it really is yet. Give them a year or two, I guarentee they will quit as well.
Correct on all counts. I used to sub-teach fulltime and I can tell you firsthand that fatherless Black children are a HUGE PROBLEM in the classroom and the Socialist School Administrators are scared to do anything and so everybody loses. These kids are so bad that I was actually scared to teach any grade above the 6th grade level and even then, I had some of them try to inflict severe violence on other kids.
Don’t forget zombie kids on phones…I don’t blame them. Our generation would have been addicted at their age too.
Big problem is cell phones in the classroom. Parents complain if you want their children to refrain from having them in the classroom but hold teachers accountable if students dont understand the lesson(s) and fail. If your head is in tge phone you obviously cant learn.
I wonder if the interviewer would be willing to get on a plane flown by an uncertified pilot and think the aviator's "different perspective" would suffice. Or an uncertified EMT tending to their small child in an accident. No other profession puts up with such disrespect as teachers do. We are so done.
Humm Pilot verses Teachers. That's like comparing apples to oranges but since you are statistically likely to fly on planes where the pilot is sleep deprived or addicted to substances then I guess the odds are 1 in the same. At least Texas requires a bachelors degree you might be shocked at many others in the classroom providing instruction who have fraudulent certifications either way the school system itself is on the decline and many good teachers just feel like they are overqualified juvenile babysitters which is why they are leaving the field in droves. I know of someone who is a teacher in the South and she never went to college be on lookout and acceptance for more of that type of teaching in the future.
Well in Texas they put too many requirements on the teacher licenses to get them. My mother is an elementary school teacher teaching kindergardeners and yet she's being forced to learn calculus and write reports on Tolkien in order to teach!
@@customcalendars4u2That’s true. A pilot is only responsible for a trip. A teacher is responsible for the future of your child. The pilot is less important.
Let teachers discipline students might be a game changer. People leave the profession because there's NO backup for teachers when kids are off the chain!
The cost of living in Texas is expensive with the high costs of homes and extremely high property taxes teacher wages are no where near what people need to live. Pay your teachers and the shortage goes away.
Agreed. $40k-$50k a year is too low for a teacher that's required to have a bachelor's or master's degree just to get onboard. Then, in bigger cities, it costs $1,800-$2,200 for a 1-bedroom apartment is highway robbery, yet this stinkin' state still has a $7.25 an hour minimum wage and companies think that paying $12-$15 an hour is "good money." This state is something else.
@@Austin-wz5xk The $7.25 an hour minimum wage is irrelevant as NO company pays that. Pay $20 an hour and we see massive layoffs and hours cut and mom and pop stores go under, like we see in really something else states like California and New York. No easy answers.
I live in Texas this shit is cheap tf
@@emrakultheaeonstorn7430 I lived in McKinney look up the cost of housing and tell me it’s cheap. On top of 15,000.00 property taxes.
@@CraftPlanTeachRepeat I lived in Mckinney on Soda Springs dr… It was cheap, the house I had in Denton on James st was cheap and my current house in Amarillo was cheap. Dont try to tell me.
Many certified teachers are moving into the homeschool/ private education arenas. You have no idea how corrupt public education is.
It's in complete shambles. I'll never teach again unless I can defend myself.
My conservative friend in the Dallas metro area has told me what sorts of lessons his daughter is being taught. I don't blame teachers for getting the hell out of Texas' education system, when the state doesn't want you to teach kids basic skills like English. Math. Science. History.
They want you to know just enough to be a factory worker and that's it.
The bell system used in schools was originally started to mimic the bell system factories use 🤷♀️
What sorts of things?
Exactly
They are teaching math, science and history... if you did any research you'd know that they still are teaching that. It's kind of insane to me that people really are buying into whatever bs is being spout about schools not teaching kids the required curriculum to advance anymore.
They want them to vote Democrat as adults...so of course they dont teach them much of anything.
"Why is this bad?" I can't even guess how many times I've been asked that same question. It's weird that we only ask that question when it comes to teachers. I keep my answer as simple as the question. "In what aspect of your life would you let someone with no training & background do critical work for you? You would have a homebuilder be your dentist? How about have your dentist build your home? No? But you don't see a problem with having any random person taking part in the most critical part of their development?!?" Of course if they don't think education is critical, that's how you end up with anyone in a classroom.
Well said 👏
Schools with no consequences for devolved behavior don't attract/retain certified teachers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
yep..there isn't a lack of certified teachers...just a lack of certified teachers that are willing to put up with what's in the public schools nowadays.
Generally one can’t even say “No” to kids anymore.
@@princessmarlena1359 Is you mad?
@@JeanniePartinExactly why would a professional deal with whimsy bratty naughty kids?
Yup, their use of Restorative Justice/Discipline is a scourge on the public school system.
Same thing happens in medicine. Try seeing a primary care doctor and being sent to a nurse instead . “Scope of practice”
Imagine a state where education is dismantled and teachers are not paid what they deserve. And then, imagine getting upset when young, uncertified people are looking for jobs and organizations would prefer to hire them as substitutes instead of certified teachers truly sick.
ITS NOT A PUBLIC SCHOOL PROBLEM. ,, ITS NOT A TEACHER PROBLEM, ITS A PARENT PROBLEM.
Be honest, it isn't a wage issue but a violent student issue.
Exactly.
Behaviours in the schools are off the rails!
That’s why I won’t teach
It's both
@@tomaslopez2940 teachers overestimate what private sector white collar jobs pay. They start out similar to what white collar jobs start out at.
Wow. This is actually terrifying
What is terrifying is the amount spent on certified teachers and their awful results, kids think math is racist, genders can be swaped and you can be an animal with kitten litter privilege in classroom.
How so? Can you be more specific?
How so?
Seems rather easy to understand why a collapsing educational system would be terrifying. If not, then maybe it was already ruined.
How quickly are certified teachers leaving the profession?
On Average teachers lv within the first 5 years …more recently ….maybe less than that.
Former teacher here. So swiftly there’s a good chance nationwide that if schools limited themselves to certified college educated teachers only over half of schools wouldn’t be able to reopen next school year.
Too much violence against teachers, teachers aren’t allowed to teach, we are held accountable for illiterate high school students we’ve never had before day one they are in our classrooms, 70+ hour weeks for a pay that if hourly would be minimum wage, and a working environment so hostile that new teachers are developing life altering stress related health problems in under three years. If you watch “why I quit teaching” videos on UA-cam you will find multiple former teachers who quit mid-year due to doctors orders.
And that’s not even touching the new laws in many states that makes it a felony to give a kid a book.
I left after 4
Annually, in huge numbers.
In droves nationwide.
Thanks to parents not raising their children correctly
Teachers of Tomorrow is a for profit certificate program. Ppl pay $400 to get the program started which can be rigorous, lengthy and is only about classroom management. You still need to study for your own exit exam for the material you wish to teach. Then once you’ve met and passed all requirements, you start your first year as a PROBATION YEAR WHERE THEY TAKE THE FULL PROGAM COST OF 4-5k in monthly installments. so your first year is spent studying like a college student and being broke like one, of course no one wants to be a teacher. And the pay is monthly! Current Teachers have every right leave a profession that doesn’t value them or pay a living wage.
That’s pretty much any teacher credentialing program. Here in CA a program will cost you 10-20k, includes hundreds of hours of coursework, hundreds of hours of student teaching, and hundreds of dollars for all the state tests you have to pass in addition to a credentialing program.
In California most police agencies pay police to train. The LAPD pays like 80,000 a year to train. Teaching is primarily a female profession thus we are treated poorly
Well then it seems that certification is unnecessary.
It’s a money grab by these alt. cert programs. They lie out of their teeth. Case in point, Teachers of Tomorrow is a business not a non-profit. There are zero consequences nor accountability for these alternative certification programs. (They often act like boiler room predatory scams.) They charge thousands for sending a few emails and some pointless online garbage. It’s a racket.
Exactly. I live in Texas and I *could* be a teacher (I have a BA) but I would never become a teacher because I’ve heard horror stories about what teachers are expected to deal with for very low wage, or respect. Especially after what happened in Uvalde. We treat teachers with so little respect we just send them to unprotected classrooms and tell them to fend for themselves.
I was recruited by Teach For America, as their entire goal is to get non-education degree grads into the education field.
After being accepted, and with a crash course summer training, I was hired as the lead teacher of a first grade class.
Everyone in TFA had to pass the teacher certification exam, which we did with only one night of studying, and then were immediacy eligible to be hired. We had to take ongoing higher ed classes while teaching to maintain the certification at least, but I was still alarmed at how easy it was to become a teacher in TX. My school district gave me minimal curriculum which wasn’t helpful at all, and I had no idea what I was doing. I ultimately left because I felt bad for teaching these kids without any real idea of what I was doing.
Yeah teach for America is a wild organization that hires wealthy good hearted college grads to gain experience at the expense of real children with disadvantages. My sister did TFA and worked - omg - so hard. No amount of work and heart and talent can make up for actual years of school and accreditation. I really see it as taking advantage of the ignorance of gifted, talented, privileged young people who have no understanding of the field.
@@MaybeTheyreBatmanyup. And the students in those disadvantaged schools pay for it.
This year, I was an uncertified teacher. Uncertified doesn’t mean incompetent. I quit after 3 1/2 months. The teacher after me quit after two weeks. Y’all can have it!!
We should pay teachers $100,000 and vet them, because if you think about it, the amount of money you would spend on childcare would be double or triple that. Would be worth it, balance the budget from other areas and put into education
😊 Great idea 💡
No because childcare still has to be paid for before the kids start school.
So your asking the CEO of I charge teachers to be teachers why they should be certified
That’s what I’m saying. You can’t be more bias then that
Awful student behavior and lack of real consequences for their actions is a huge reason there is a teacher shortage. No qualified teacher wants to put up with it anymore.
Never be a teacher. The teachers put up with too much nonsense for very little pay $35-45K. No way. Not worth it.
My mother just won District Teacher of the Year and she is still paying off her student loans from when she decided to further her education and get her masters back in 2017. There is no reason why any teacher at all should be paying student loans for wanting to educate our youth. Shit takes guts, lots of energy, AND patience. Let's be honest, a lot of people don't have patience nowadays.
Lol that’s what happens when you constantly increase teacher workload, observations, and expectations, as pay remains stagnant during a period of epic inflation. People are leaving the profession. Money stays at the top of the pyramid in Texas, and it isn’t trickling down. Districts are hiring more and more six figure administrators at the district and state level, as teachers must subsist on the same wages they earned before the pandemic. Uncertified means that the district gets to spend even LESS on teacher pay, paying about $10k-$15k less per teacher per year. It’s ALL about money in Texas.
They increased everything but the pay. Its so overwhelming
The kids are terrible! Administration won't do anything to get those kids out of the classroom!
It's due to Restorative Justice/Discipline practices!! 😞
@@stephanie_smith 100% doesn't work.
Yep, its the awful student behavior that is driving me out of the profession. When you have kids begging you to write referrals so they can get suspended and stay home all day playing fortnite, there is huge problem.
Administrators are incompetent and they do not care about the kids or the teachers. The only care about themselves.
I live in my car and will be teaching in August.
Perfect example of why I pulled my kids from government "school". They take billions in taxes and in return provide subpar at best and openly degenerate at worst teachers and feed the kids slop. It's disgusting.
With the pay teachers get, you might be able to get a studio. 😂
@@erniemoriel9508a nice sturdy cardboard box will do
If you are serious, I am truly sorry this country failed you
😳🤯🤯😳😳
My mother was a substitute teacher in Texas, a child threw a desk at her and missed. The school refused to send the kid home, and their justification was that the desk didn't hit anyone. I was a substitute for a bit, the children had no idea what the civil war was about. But, the class was learning about the buffalo wars, the war after the civil war.
Thank you for covering this. This is going on in Florida as well. We are creating a system where children will perpetually have 1st and 2nd year teachers.
We need a certification for parents that’s what we need!
Facts 😂
Haha
👏👏👏
Ya my daughter’s school constantly has teacher shortages. 1/4 her classes are substitutes
This is INSANE! Sad & unfortunate indeed
The problem isn’t lack of certification so much as lack of experience. Some private school teachers are uncertified, but they have years of experience. These are likely all first year “associate”teachers. That is a problem. I once sent my kids to a Kipp that was staffed and run by novices - it was everybody’s first year 😂. What a nightmare that was. As an educator, I support teachers, but the foolery I witnessed in my children’s classrooms was too much. One teacher graded the 2nd graders harsher than I grade juniors in high school - one assessment determined their entire grade for the report card 😂, with no makeups given. When I called her out on it, she was haughty and gave me a snarky response. I asked for a meeting with the principal to clarify the grading policy for the campus! There wasn’t one😂. And the other new teacher said my kindergartener was doing great in reading…when the end of year test results came out, she was in the 50th percentile, and the teacher said “she has improved so much!”😂😂😂 That would mean that my daughter learned ONLY what I taught her at home, on the side, that year with our Bob’s Books. Here I thought I was supplementing her school learning with some phonics at home, but I was actually her only reading educator.
Teaching is a honed skill. Reflecting on the effectiveness of your teaching is a practiced skill. First year teachers don’t have all that developed yet. They need lots of support and mentorship.
Pull your kids out of these hell holes.
It's as if the concept of just increasing salaries to a livable wage is just alien to some people.
They need to give more context. Certification prepares you little for the classroom. The focus is on proving knowledge in the content areas. Anybody with a college degree shouldn't have any issues with those tests.
You really don't learn how to plan lessons, manage class behavior or make assessmentd until you're actually working in the classroom. Consequently, I don't see districts' reliance on non-certified teachers as a problem. I doubt the quality of teacher is much lower or different at all quite frankly.
Well no one wants to be a teacher so they have many teachers on an EMERGENCY LICENSE 😂😂
Just help them become teachers. Stop over reacting obviously nobody wants to be a teacher now a days.
Overreacting? It takes four plus years to be certified if you don’t have a bachelors. Teachers literally are the basis of our entire future economy. Tell me you don’t value education without telling me …
I got a bachelors degree. Then I moved states and was told that my degree wasn't good enough to get a license in that state. I had to go back and take SIXTY CREDITS worth of entry-level freshman classes to get my license back. Some of the classes I took were the exact same classes I was teaching to high school students (and I was doing a better job of teaching it than the local colleges were). None of these classes had anything to do with teaching. They were all content classes that could be learned by reading wikipedia. Becoming a teacher literally is WAY more work than what the pay will give back, and the focus of the programs is often not on actually learning how to be a good teacher (content knowledge really isn't the most important thing to learn). Teacher preparation programs could be cut WAY down, but the requirements are what they are. The whole education system is a mess from kindergarten on up to the university level. That being said, if we are going to require so much education to be a teacher, we really should pay them more and ensure that teacher preperation programs are useful and good quality.
And it's the Texas GOPs fault for destroying public schools and using it as a political wedge and tool.
You get what you pay for!
I subbed in a Title 1 school, over 70% at poverty level and they needed all the staff and help they could get for those kids. Sometimes it’s better to have anyone, certified or not. These kids, most of whom have emotional and behavioral disabilities, benefit from more able adults in the environment rather than just a few who are certified.
A piece of paper and the passing of an indoctrinated test ( ppr) doesn't guarantee that ANY teacher is a good teacher. I've taught in both public and Catholic schools that don't require certification and some of the BEST teachers were in private schools. No certification is needed to TEACH. It's just a ridiculous construct.
There isn’t a teacher shortage - there’s a shortage of teaching positions that pay a living wage
Not a wage issue. It is a violent student issue.
So teachers make like $5 an hour? Wow.
The 1 star on Yelp state never disappoints 😂
It's obvious that nobody wants to be a teacher in Texas not alone in the United States due to their extremely low salary. Plus dealing with these kids nowadays, it is hard.
Pay Teachers to go get certified , then after a increase in hourly pay becuse of the new certified.
Pay us more and provide more support. Certified teachers are licensed professionals and deserve to be treated as such
A lot of people, including teachers, no longer want to work with other people's children. Often, you're hit with the awful behavior of the child, and the childish mindset of the adult. Volunteers are quitting, coaches, mentors, instructors, etc.
Few people want to improve their parenting, but they work hard at making excuses for their childdren.
The governor is preoccupied with politics - HIS "POLITICAL PARTY."
"He hasn't the time to take care of our educational dilemma, our children's futures, health care, hunger ....
To put in into perspective how bad things are in this country, there are papers from the 1980s written about how educational rigor has decreased ‘by 2-3 levels in recent years’. Imagine how bad it is now with kids who cannot be students?
This is what happens when you underpay your teachers and treat them like crap. And now all of a sudden ‘oh all our good teachers left! Who could have foreseen this!
In Indiana we have teachers who teach public school and homeschool their own children. It’s no wonder they can’t find people willing to contribute to such a failed miserable system that creates mindless factory workers…🤷🏼♀️
Reasons why homeschooling growing so rapidly! Parents don't quit after 3 years. Learning how to teach is easy, its having a passion for teaching that is hard to find. Teachers need better pay & fewer students or no one will stay in the profession...
The job is terrible. It doesn’t pay that well, takes up a huge amount of time, and challenges a person on every level. Most people can’t handle being in confrontational situations, much less being there everyday.
Funny, no one here brings up how difficult the teaching exam is for certification. It has gotten more difficult over the last decade.
They treat certified teachers like crap then complain that they end up with crappy education. Beautiful.
I don't want my Texas certifications anymore. I've left the field. Anybody want them???
5 dollars
I sub teach now which is less stress than full time. Plus I have a chronic illness, so I like the flexibility to stay home or come in half days( if I am not feeling well enough
Nope
Hey as someone who teaches college and has dual enrolled students, I say so long as the teachers are working towards certification and willing to deal with everything that comes let them teach. Experience is hard to get this benefits the teachers by giving them exposure to content and with the help of fellow veteran faculty theres no reason that students education should suffer. You can be a certified teacher but a bad one. It's about if your school is working to ensure you are meeting the standards the state wants.
People have no idea how educated & well trained teachers truly are. We have our Bachelor Degrees, & many of us have a Master Degree in Education. To get a CLEAR teaching credential, there are more than just State Tests in Subject Matter Content Areas. There is coursework just in teaching and our teaching practicum hours of experience. I shadowed tenure Science Teachers during my certification which entailed Observation, Lesson Planning, & Lesson Delivery & Assessment. You are then graded by the teacher(s) you have worked with. There are also numerous classes to take & pass at the university where you are attending for your credential & master degree. All this happens long before you get your own classrooms & are observed & graded there by the teaching department of the university you are attending for your credential. There is also BTSA which clears your credential & that is a separate program. I can promise that these uncertified "teachers" are in no way ready to handle a classroom & educate students. 📚
The pay for teachers has been way too low forever. The States are making the laws, talk to your governor!
Pay teachers as professionals. It's a dying. Profession.
Imagine paying for teachers to get certified as an incentive since the wage is so low. My husband is a teacher in NC and he has his masters degree with active course work in a PhD program. Upon hiring on an emergency license they promised to help him obtain certification, but really they want these teachers to pay $2000 plus for the classes here to obtain certification. After all that education and student loans, these teachers cannot afford to pay for certification. If you want certified teachers, pay for the certification. Simple.
They are legit under staffed/pays staff and then start saying they indoctrinated kids when it’s only a few doing it ontop of that parents need to be parents along with helping/ being more involved ( Texas GOP small government and them cutting funds ).
This whole state feels like it’s being held together with duct tape.
don't go to california then, it is horrible!
You mean the glorified daycare centers?
What do you suggest? If there is no one else available to lead the class …the janitor? (No disrespect to the janitor)
Those students will be our next janitors and maids no problem I can find with it .
I think that's the whole point. There are no teachers to fill these needed jobs. While some people would be delighted if the public school system crumbled, I don't think they have really thought about what that looks like in reality. Kids deserve good teachers, not subs and janitors. And it's fool-hardy to think that kids without schools will become upstanding members of society. Parents who can't stay home will leave their children to run amok, and it will cost the community WAY more than it would have if we'd just paid teachers better, treated them with dignity, and provided them with what they need to do their jobs.
The alternative is to significantly increase teacher pay so that the next generation of America gets educated by properly trained teachers.
@@hnguyen5656those teachers are useless. Anyone can go in there and read a textbook and give out lessons, they shouldn't have been certified from the beginning. Train teachers in a short program because these long trained teachers are failing the kids. In truth the school boards make all the choices and teachers are just following directions, anyone could do that.
Perhaps reduce the TOP HEAVY DISTRICT PERSONNEL and apply those savings to Teacher Salaries??
This isn't a DEI problem. It's a problem with the entire profession of teaching. Teachers are leaving the field in droves. So you either leave schools with unfilled positions or you fill them with undercertified teachers.
Either way, this is just a band aid over the real problem of the overworked and underpaid profession of teaching.
How to get 17k uncertified teachers to pass? Stop making the bar exam so damn difficult to pass and stop trying to low ball paraprofessionals in the schools with crappie salaries to the point where they couldn't pay their rent or put food on the table for their kids.
You're welcome!!!
Trouble with superintendents, newspapers and tv hosts is that they are clueless. 38 year veteran teacher and thank god, retired.
This is bs. I am a teacher with nearly 20 years of experience. And i am certified in another state. I moved to Texas, and the first thing I was told is that my teacher certification is not valid in Texas. I had to take at least four exams, nearly $200 each, pass them, of course, to be certified. I have all this experience, and I'm over 50 years old. That's like going back and redoing my bachelor's degree in education. I dont have the time or energy to go through that again. It's pointless. On top of that, the amount of time it requires outside of the classroom to prepare for those tests is insane. I would rather switch career than teach here in Texas.
You can pay uncertified teachers less. I worked as an uncertified teacher for a year as I worked through my ACP. Once I took my content test-I got a huge pay bump.
Has anyone ever talked to a certified teacher? Lmao.
I went to school before the certification craze. I think my education was much better than whats offered today.
And by the way, I spent a little time in college... majored in Criminal Justice and dropped out with a 4.0, I had babies to raise and they had a no tolerance policy for absences!
We don't need certified teachers because any trained seal can do the job or at least that is what most people seem to think.
Let's see I have a master's degree in special education and was highly certified, and I taught for about 6 years. Left because of the disrespect from administrators, parents, and students.
Oh, by the way, Heath Morrison was my old boss at Charlotte Meck- a few years ago.
Well to be a teacher they don't even teach u basic skills. Better to have teachers that have a heart for teaching even if not certified. We need teachers who are taught how to teach with heart. Not just teach them basic education. We need a better school system. More pay
Do you want to know how you solve that problem really easy start paying the certified teachers a livable wage
Sounds like an ad for Teachers of Tomorrow certification program. That’s generous of Fox 7 Austin to give Teachers of Tomorrow free advertising.
The trend you didn’t ask is how uncertified teachers are doing vs certified in terms of data-this will come down how school onboard and train. I met AMAZING uncertified teachers and AMAZING certified teachers. I met terrible of both.
A lot of experience comes from being on the job that the cert programs and college programs don’t teach you. One district will give lesson plans you didn’t learn to make in your certification/education classes while another makes you script every single day that you also were trained on.
Additionally, a lot of places that take uncertified teachers are charters and private where they are worked MUCH more than public (that require certifications). Charters already have high turnover-it’s HARD working for KIPP, Yes!, and IDEA. You work way more hours, more is expected from you, and you take home SO MUCH WORK. That’s not necessarily a certification/non-certification thing because even the certified teachers leave charters at a high rate.
How else are you going to get future FOX viewers?
Gov keeps promising higher wages. When is that happening?
This is happening everywhere because it’s not enough teachers.. They don’t only do this with education.. They do it in health care too.. Because it’s dangerously short and the staff/students/patience need the help..
It's a very serious problem. Once, I was a volunteer at my children school. I worked as class aid to support teachers. A 5th grade math teacher asked me to grade her student's homework. I refused. Since that day, I always pay more attention in my children homework paper after grading. However, it is difficult to check if teacher grade student homework correct or not because today, everything is online.
it's all over in the usa my kids are telling me that the teacher are not teaching them😢❤
How can we teach when behavior is abysmal, the average class size is 26+, a third of the students are absent on any given day, the parents are MIA, we have no planning time thanks to all of the other crap that has been piled on our plates, and state officials have restricted what we can teach so much that we're afraid to open our mouths for fear of being vilified for teaching literally anything that might be deemd "questionable." After 6 years, I was exhausted, and I still couldn't pay my bills. I had to quit. There was no point in staying.
Isn’t this what they wanted? 🤷🏽♀️
What are the average miles on a used car?
I'm not way too concerned about _certified_ teachers, I'm concerned about teachers _without_ degrees, i.e. _less_ educated teachers.
Uncertified Texas teacher here. I can assure you my students are lacking NOTHING from my teaching! My scores are high, my students are well taken care of emotionally and academically. I have been chosen to pilot resources that are on research. I have visitors in my class observing how I teach to learn from me. Uncertified doesn’t mean unqualified! Also, there’s no degree or certification that prepares you to be in the classroom. You learn IN the field not on the stand observing.
I’m for it. They have a bachelor’s, they need to work. Train them like in any job. Retention has to do with pay, pay better🎉
Isn't there a growing national teacher shortage? That's how i came to find myself teaching, over 20 years ago, in the nation's capital. I'd worked as a sub for some time prior to being hired by a principal who needed to fill a Head Start teacher's job. My predecessor had gone awol. I doubt that anyone would disagree that American public education needs a complete overhaul. In fact, that $60 billion Biden's sending to other countries belongs to American public education imho. And, i'm not saying throwing money at the problem would completely solve all the problems, but it would be a good start.
The real REALITY is the state exam requirements. In all of the schools that I have ever worked in in being an education for over 10 years it has been state exams. This teachers are forced to take these exhausting exams over content that the state tells you what you need to teach all you have to do is learn how to teach it I have a master's degree and I'm certified in middle school. Over half of the teachers that I have worked with in education have all failed these state exams multiple times not just once not three times but at least four to five times. And the way that a lot of these teachers are failing these tests is margins of 10.5 points two points and for that is extremely stressful and sometimes hard to account for because most of these tests do not even tell you what you missed on the exam. That part is frustrating as well. If I am getting my master's degree in education and I have a bachelor's degree in science you still want me to take four exams one about content knowledge the second one is about I don't know writing how to write scientific theories etc etc and really you don't even get these full experiences in the classroom. I have petitioned my state to stop with these exams because they're money grabbing $130 for the test plus testing materials almost makes $200 and you're not just taking one test you're taking two tests three tests four tests just to be state certified in The subject area that you got a bachelor's degree in or change of career in It doesn't make any sense especially when your scores match and you have a 3.0 or higher in your master's program.
How about offer certification for people with alternative life experience?
If you have degree why do you need certification and if you need it then the schools should pay for them.
Because this guy charges 4k to 5k per his program
But they won't raise pay and or improve benefits to keep the best and brightest... Somehow that is not the answer