When I was finishing my program on 2007 my last seminar before
graduating one of the professors in charge of the seminar made a
statement that was very interesting and sad. Michigan churns out
about 5,000 new teachers each year. within 3 years 1/2 of them do
not renew their cetificate or apply for a professional certificate.
It is unknown if they move to other states and receive
certification there, as I am doing, or if they just get out of
teaching altogether. That is very sad though, a single state
putting out 5,000 teachers a year.

On 6/20/09, mark wrote:
> Oh yeah, one more thing! They said there was no data about a
> teacher shortage. How about data about a surplus? That data
> would be pretty easy to compile. The State issues teaching
> certificates, and could easily compile how many are certified
> based on subject. It would also be relatively easy to estimate
> how many teachers are working in MI, by subject, region, grade
> level, etc. This is public info in Public districts and Charters,
> and could easily be estimated for private schools. You could then
> actually see how many teachers are newly certified in MI each
> year, and estimate approximately how many will be needed each
> year. This is something a Dept. of Ed employee could compile in a
> couple days. Then, they would have the data and not be guessing
> at this "shortage!" This makes me mad, and I have a job, but its
> still ridiculous!
>
> On 6/20/09, mark wrote:
>> Huh? I would be less outraged at a story about Nazi unicorns
>> flying in from China. Teacher shortage? In Michigan? Wha...?
>>
>> OK, a lot of people don't know how bad it is, but I thought
>> this teacher "shortage" crap was put to bed a long time ago.
>> Its one thing to have a misinformed editorial piece, but this
>> is garbage coming from the Dept. of Ed about speeding up
>> programs.
>>
>> Math and Special Education are the traditional "shortage" areas
>> and my experience on the special ed side is that there are many
>> dozens of applications for each job. Maybe a hundred. That's
>> a lot better than the thousands for most other teaching jobs,
>> but certainly no shortage!
>>
>> On 6/15/09, SpecEd Teacher wrote:
>>>
>>
>
http://www.freep.com/article/20090615/NEWS05/906150358/To+fight+shor
tage++state+plan+aims+to+churn+out+teachers
>>>
>>>
>>> Oy.

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