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Re: Home Schooling?/ what's a qualified teacher?
Posted by Sara on 6/27/08
In my state, there is NO standard training program for teachers.
Each university and college is free to define their own training
program so no public school teachers here have taken the same
courses. Few take any developmental psychology or learning
psychology.
I have seen really bad teachers in private schools and public
schools. I have seen GREAT teachers who do not
have 'certification' or a 'license'. I've seen horrible teachers
who have both.
I have yet to see any school that really helps its teachers good or
bad to become better ones. With schools public or private there is
a lot of the old caveat emptor - let the buyer beware.
The private school I sent my sons to hired teachers with energy and
creative thought. I wanted both for my sons. I didn't want
memorized information being the school's definition of learning. I
wanted a lot of room for creative thinking of children and an
approach to teaching that would intrigue them. I also wanted
smaller class sizes and every school should have those.
> Private schools do not have to have a qualified teacher. They
> can hire anybody at all. So who they hire will vary widely
> according to the school. The math teachers especially at a
> private school will have no math background so you had better
> check up on your child's teacher's credentials.
>
these are incredible generalizations. Many private schools around
here only hire 'certified teachers'. I avoided them and went with
the school that seemed to care about the kind of people they were
hiring - people with interests of their own who had a genuine
regard for children.
> A private school can legally hire anyone with a pulse and they
> often do. The pastor's wife, the director's best friend's
> brother...the person who will teach for half the salary of a
> public school.
and with that, you've just described my local public school! Where
the brother in law of the school board chairman is given a teaching
job, the pastor's wife as the pastor is so prominent in the town
that his wife who decides she wants to return to teaching having
taught for one year 30 years ago....is hired right away.
>
> Yes, private schools pay less no more to the teachers. How do
> you get math and science people to work for $18,000 a year?
Well as a former private school teacher with a Ph.D in my field -
I taught at my sons' school for the pleasure of it and for the
kinds of families and kids I had there. Our starting salary is
35,000 but I know it's lower in other private schools. The work
environment is very important to people and they will make
sacrifices in their salary to work in the right place.
Whether private school is the right place for you is certainly for
you to decide. Good luck with the decision.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Home Schooling?, 6/25/08, by AppleFellFar.
- Re: Home Schooling?, 6/26/08, by first.
- Re: Home Schooling?, 6/26/08, by DSC.
- Re: Home Schooling?, 6/26/08, by DSC.
- Re: Home Schooling?, 6/26/08, by qualified teachers in private school LOL.
- Re: Home Schooling?, 6/26/08, by IrishGram.
- Re: if the school is accredited, the teachers have to be, 6/27/08, by licensed. At least that has been my experience. nfm.
- Re: Qualified Teachers, 6/27/08, by wig.
- Re: Home Schooling?/ what's a qualified teacher?, 6/27/08, by Sara.
- Re: Qualified Teachers and private schools/ Wig, 6/27/08, by Sara.
- Re: We're accredited thru North Cenral and all teachers must be , 6/27/08, by certified! If not we lose accreditation. msteach.
- Re: Qualified Teachers and private schools, 6/27/08, by wig.
- Re: there's a difference between independent schools and parochi, 6/27/08, by Nancy in MD.
- Re: there's a difference between independent schools and par, 6/27/08, by wig.
- Re: if the school is accredited, the teachers have to be, 6/29/08, by pigeon.
- Re: Home Schooling?, 6/29/08, by Misinformed- Here private school teachers are MORE qualified.
- Re: To Misinformed, 6/30/08, by Amy.
- Re: To Misinformed, 6/30/08, by Houston, TX- from Misinformed..
- Re: To Misinformed, 6/30/08, by New teacher, awesome school.
- Re: What is a qualified teacher?, 7/03/08, by bernoulli.
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