The bill requires only 60 hours of in-classroom observation/action before getting “certified”. That amounts to about two weeks and is ludicrous.
They should at least need to do some sort of semester-long experience similar to student teaching.

In addition, the company that does this charges a flat fee. Sounds like a diploma mill allowing a cake-walk to the front of the classroom.

How is it ludicrous. Any career Chemists etc…is more than competent in math and science to teach any elementary to highschool math or Chemistry. In fact, they will more than likely be more suitable than your now average teacher due to the fact that they have real world working experience requiring these skills. Many students cannot see in elementary through high school how learning higher level math and science skills can benefit them because most teachers have themselves never used these skills in the real world.

It is a great ideal. Appears that The Missouri Senate is finally using good common sense that will greatly benefit public school students. Afterall, the children are what’s important here, so many decision makers seem to forget this.

Just because they know how to DO it doesn’t mean they know how to TEACH it … but I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt!

Considering there are so many teachers out there NOW who don’t know how to teach … and they’ve actually gone through the requirements to become a teacher!

Suzy, don’t you think that the powers that be that actually hire teachers will go farther in their interview than a certification from XYZ organization?

The people looking for a “cakewalk to the front of the classroom” will be weeded out by the hiring process in all but the most desperate districts.

Here you have professionals, most willingly taking paycuts, making an effort to help in the education system, and people like Bray and Suzy can only criticize. Typical.