Asehun 1
Senay Asehun
Ms. McAlister
ENG. 112- 21
3 April 2016 Education
Every year when the schools close in June, the question on most parent’s mind is whether the teacher teaching their child is capable, whether they will encourage them or whether they shall focus on their single needs. The question whether teachers help students in developing the necessary basic skills, think and solve problems and have a good knowledge of what they teach and their students, is important. This is because in the hands of the teacher is where every parent entrusts their children. Though much progress has been made in answering the above stated questions, more work is needed in the improvement of the education
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Other states need a few educational courses and about six weeks of student teaching to qualify. For instance, in Minnesota a teacher requires conciderable and accurate training for them to qualify. In Louisiana a teacher does not need having any major in the teaching courses they are going to teach (Zamyatin, 2012).
There are solutions to the problems that are facing American schools and the quality of education that is being channeled to the students. Teachers’ standards should be raised while at the same time equalizing their remuneration plans. This works in the sense that, as the teaching standards are raised an equal and significant raise in the corresponding salary package is also incorporated. For instance, the strategies employed in Connecticut where they increased the salaries as per the level of qualification for the teachers, raised the enrollment of teachers to the extent of having surpluses and the education levels for Connecticut schoolchildren improved
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This helps in the sense that, in states with excess in capable staff, such as Minnesota, Maine, Connecticut, and Iowa, teachers with licenses from these states should be allowed to move to other states that have shortfalls. This move is greatly encourages by the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) where the body has a common assessment for teachers all over the country and creates standards that allow teachers to have movable licenses that are valid all over the country. This is
Asehun 4 because thousands of teachers are not hired in the states where they are trained to teach and therefore stay unemployed until they get an opening (Kaiser, 2005).
The entrants and immigrants from other countries could also be allowed to teach in American schools. This could be allowed by making them undergo a National Board Certification examination that would gauge if they were competent or not. This policy could help the national labor market for teachers by increasing the number of available and competent teachers for