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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 58974" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Nancy,</p><p></p><p>I can't address the charter school issue but I can answer your questions about people coming in from other fields to teach in public schools in Georgia.</p><p></p><p>You can be hired to teach without a teaching degree but you come in on a provisional certificate (at a lower salary than a regular teacher would make). You have a set amount of time to take education courses (which could be done in a master's degree program) and take the state teacher exams. At that point, you would become a certified teacher (with full pay).</p><p></p><p>There are also programs to fast track this process (particularly in high needs areas). A friend of mine has just been hired by a local college to head up a program to train and certify non-teachers for the classroom.</p><p></p><p>I have seen several of these people go through the process at my school. Quite frankly, they were not prepared to teach in a high school classroom. While experts in the subject matter, many had no idea what to expect from high school kids and were a disaster at classroom management. </p><p></p><p>The ones that stuck it out got the hang of it and are doing okay. A couple just quit before the school year was over. They said they could make a lot more money doing something else with a lot less aggravation.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 58974, member: 1967"] Nancy, I can't address the charter school issue but I can answer your questions about people coming in from other fields to teach in public schools in Georgia. You can be hired to teach without a teaching degree but you come in on a provisional certificate (at a lower salary than a regular teacher would make). You have a set amount of time to take education courses (which could be done in a master's degree program) and take the state teacher exams. At that point, you would become a certified teacher (with full pay). There are also programs to fast track this process (particularly in high needs areas). A friend of mine has just been hired by a local college to head up a program to train and certify non-teachers for the classroom. I have seen several of these people go through the process at my school. Quite frankly, they were not prepared to teach in a high school classroom. While experts in the subject matter, many had no idea what to expect from high school kids and were a disaster at classroom management. The ones that stuck it out got the hang of it and are doing okay. A couple just quit before the school year was over. They said they could make a lot more money doing something else with a lot less aggravation. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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