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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 60512" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>Kathy, my sister in law has taught schools in several different states including Wisconsin, Ohio, and Maryland and has told me that Ohio's requirements were by far the highest. </p><p></p><p>I'm not sure I disagree with the reciprocity rules that much because certainly on the job experience should count for something. Hopefully if you did not learn it in the classroom you at least picked much of it up through osmosis. Perhaps what I should have said was that it appears our teachers are more qualified when they first get out of college.</p><p></p><p>Martie, I agree with you. I believe content knowledge is much more important at the high school level, but at the elementary school age one needs to know how to teach and I'm not sure you get that without education classes. We all complain about teachers who aren't qualfiied to teach our special needs kids and this is one of the reasons. </p><p></p><p>It appears as though the standards for teachers vary so greatly and perhaps this is why we lag so far behind many other countries in math and science for example. I still go back to my question about test scores. I would be very curious to kow how different states perform given the same standarized test.</p><p></p><p>It also appears that one can become a teacher by several different methods. I understand one can get a masters in education without having taken a single undergrad education course. You can't do that in other professional fields.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure how I feel about the foreign language speaking teacher. I think that for some very specialized subjects, content is more important and perhaps foreign language is one of those. I don't object to having an expert in a certain field come int o teach certain subjects. In my kids' private elementary school they had an artist teach art. She was not a teacher. They also had a spanish speaking mom teach spanish and she was very good. However at the high school level I don't think she would have done as well.</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 60512, member: 59"] Kathy, my sister in law has taught schools in several different states including Wisconsin, Ohio, and Maryland and has told me that Ohio's requirements were by far the highest. I'm not sure I disagree with the reciprocity rules that much because certainly on the job experience should count for something. Hopefully if you did not learn it in the classroom you at least picked much of it up through osmosis. Perhaps what I should have said was that it appears our teachers are more qualified when they first get out of college. Martie, I agree with you. I believe content knowledge is much more important at the high school level, but at the elementary school age one needs to know how to teach and I'm not sure you get that without education classes. We all complain about teachers who aren't qualfiied to teach our special needs kids and this is one of the reasons. It appears as though the standards for teachers vary so greatly and perhaps this is why we lag so far behind many other countries in math and science for example. I still go back to my question about test scores. I would be very curious to kow how different states perform given the same standarized test. It also appears that one can become a teacher by several different methods. I understand one can get a masters in education without having taken a single undergrad education course. You can't do that in other professional fields. I'm not sure how I feel about the foreign language speaking teacher. I think that for some very specialized subjects, content is more important and perhaps foreign language is one of those. I don't object to having an expert in a certain field come int o teach certain subjects. In my kids' private elementary school they had an artist teach art. She was not a teacher. They also had a spanish speaking mom teach spanish and she was very good. However at the high school level I don't think she would have done as well. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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