Interns Are Highly Qualified?

[Modern School]

Get out your dictionaries. Here is the first new word for 2011: Highly Qualified
--a person who is breathing and also willing to work for very low wages in the poorest and lowest performing schools, without any training or support, and without any job protections.

Thousands of intern teachers in California will now be considered “Highly Qualified” under NCLB, despite their lack of experience and minimal training, thanks to a bill passed in the waning minutes of the lame duck Congress. The legislation was buried in an unrelated spending bill and was passed with little public awareness and no hearings. Curiously, special education teachers, who must undergo even more training than regular education instructors, will be considered “Not Highly Qualified” if they are teaching math or science without a special math or science credential, as many do in self-contained resource classes.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Once again, the sped kids get screwed

I could write a book.

[jody]

5. How does sped become a factor in the OP issue? Sorry I missed that point. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Here -

Curiously, special education teachers, who must undergo even more training than regular education instructors, will be considered “Not Highly Qualified” if they are teaching math or science without a special math or science credential, as many do in self-contained resource classes.

This means fewer sped teachers. Hence, the kids get screwed.

[jody]

10. Thanks! n/t

[whistler162]

2. D- for the writing. What is the bill # and does it only concern California......

[customerserviceguy]

3. Do you need a special credential

to teach calculator arithmetic to second-graders?

[jody]

6. Do you need even a HS diploma to teach calculator arithmetic? n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Unless you can figure out a way to get a college degree without one

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Yes you need to be certified in elementary education

Why do you ask?

[customerserviceguy]

11. Depends on what is meant by 'need'

There are skills that are truly necessary to do most all jobs, and then there are artificial requirements that have little to do with them.

I'm sure you and I have differing opinions on an elementary education certificate.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. And I am sure there is no argument here

as state requirements are not a topic for debate.

[adnelson60087]

4. They don't care as long as they get the babysitting

services cared for. It won't only affect SPED, just you watch.

I'm sorry guys, but I am losing so much faith in this nation's leaders.