But we won't solve the problem with a stream of te...

2009-11-21T18:34:35.650-05:00

But we won't solve the problem with a stream of temp teachers either. And if they are alt cert, let them come through a program that encourages them to explore making teaching their career.

In NYC, they produced a ton of alt cert math teachers, including taking non-math people with a few courses (they should have not dropped the minimum quite as low as they did) and converting them to math. In fact, math is not one of our shortage areas at this moment.

There's lots bad about the 'immersion' approach - they ended up producing what I considered an unacceptably high number of marginally mathematically able teachers (esp at some sites, such as City College, where they all but dropped the math requirement). But there's also lots good.

I worked for the program (indirectly) at a stronger site, and a group I worked with, pre-service, summer '02, of 25, 15 are still teaching, 2 more are supervisors...

But we also have the problem of imparting some sense of math (love of math, or is that asking too much?) on some portion of our elementary teachers... that's tougher...

Jonathan

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