alt.education

On Mar 4, 11:02 am, "SumBuny" wrote:
> "stevericks" wrote in message
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> news:id3zj.15568$rE5.10471@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
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> > Bob,
> > I am all for giving him the benefit of the doubt. The early part of my
> > career was in working with new teachers. College classes can help, but
> > there is nothing like experience under a good mentor. I'm still not sure
> > if his certification requires teaching under a supervising teacher or not
> > (may have said but I'm pressed for time lately and am only skimming some
> > of the responses).
>
> > Someone made a post earlier about military having trouble adapting to
> > classrooms. In my Sunday School class we currently have 2 ex-military
> > that just entered the teaching force this year. I don't know too much
> > about ranks or how they compare, however, one was a commander/Navy and the
> > other a colonel/army (we are located at the nation's war college-all high
> > ranking services go through here). Anyway, one has gone back to college
> > and taken a number of ed courses, including doing an internship. She has
> > been working full time since Christmas (hired to replace someone
> > quitting ) and is doing a fabulous job. In fact, I talked with the
> > director of instruction of her district the other day and was told she was
> > adapting very well.. The other went through a "quickie" alternative
> > certificate (temporary certification I think) with no student teaching and
> > now he is having a devil of a time. That is not to say that all will
> > follow this pattern. The program I oversee requires any news teacher to
> > have a mentor, and I'm proud of that.
> > Steve
>
> Troops to Teachers is another alternative path...you might be surprised at
> how much pedagogy some of these men and women actually have in their
> careers, how many of them have actual instructor training because of their
> careers. True, not a heck of *child* development (unless you include late
> adolescent, that is ), but those who made a career out of the military
> and end up with degrees with their upper ranks usually end up with more than
> a few psych courses with it as well--one has to do be able to handle
> troops/squadrons with any sort of efficiency. Usually the T2T path involves
> adding the pedagogy courses that were missed in their degree path, and
> perhaps a refresher course or two, and the practica/student teaching.
> Sometimes they can CLEP a few of them if they had comparable coursework in
> their career fields (depending on what type of instructors they were). T2T
> also has an option for spouses as well.


Two items of note. First, Troops to Teachers soldiers can,
officially, use ABCTE to satisfy their requirements...
http://www.abcte.org/get-involved/partners/troops-to-teachers

That being said, the second item is to note that Troops to Teacher
requirements do not require student teaching or mentorship for full
certification. The teacher can teach on a temporary certification,
while they finish the other requirements. So, if ABCTE fails for lack
of student teaching or mentorship, this program fails, as well (not
sure if you held this position but some on here do).

Kenneth Clifton
christiansuperhero.com