Comments on: The Intern Debate http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2007/08/22/the-intern-debate/ Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Steve Weinberg http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2007/08/22/the-intern-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-14875 Steve Weinberg Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:08:08 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=134#comment-14875 In general, I would say that the NCLB requirement for “highly qualified teachers” has hurt the inner city school that I work at. Especially in the case of Math teachers and Special Education teachers, the requirements have forced us to let go of some experienced teachers and rely on a series of interns. These interns have to earn their credentials while first-year teaching, a huge challenge, and many of them leave after a few years.
Two steps that would reduce the problem: 1. allow teachers with multiple subject credentials to teach full math programs in grades 6, 7, and 8. They are already allowed to teach those classes if they also teach Science to the same students, but letting them teach full math programs would ease the shortage of math teachers and allow us to better use some of our experienced staff members. 2. decide on some type of multiple subject credential for special education teachers. We keep being told that at some point in the future a special ed teacher who teaches all subjects in middle school will be to be highly qualified in all of the subjects. Maybe that rule has already been changed, but I haven’t heard what the rules are.

]]> By: Katy Murphy http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2007/08/22/the-intern-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-14874 Katy Murphy Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:53:12 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=134#comment-14874 The district says that in recent years, they’ve hired 40 percent of their teachers from partnership programs. As I mentioned on Monday, I originally asked about the total teaching make-up, but the question seems to have been interpreted differently. I’m still waiting on the answer.

In any event, some of the teachers hired as interns years ago would have completed their credentialing programs by now, so they would no longer be counted in the 11 percent figure.

]]> By: Jim Mordecai http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2007/08/22/the-intern-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-14876 Jim Mordecai Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:35:49 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=134#comment-14876 These figures on the Oakland teaching force are impossible to follow. On Saturday you reported 40% of the teacher workforce was in partnership programs and now we get an 11% report regarding interns.

If interns are not included in the 40% figure does that mean 51% of the 2,000 or so Oakland teachers are in the partnership and intership programs and being considered NCLB highly qualified?

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