I’ll bet your average retired engineer could teach science better than your average science teacher. They ought to figure out a way to bring those guys in.
That was the Duncan Hunter plan of 08. We have a growing pool of retired astronauts who specialized in various science disciplines and they would make great professors.
Many go through certification hoops but that's only half the battle, you still have to deal with the left-wing agenda once there (as do a lot of teachers who flee public education). Other aspects are lack of discipline, safety issues and standards that don't advocate excellence but rather cater to (and so achieve) the lowest bar of achievement.
See my previous post. It isn’t happening.
...”I’ll bet your average retired engineer could teach science better than your average science teacher. They ought to figure out a way to bring those guys in”...
You are exactly correct..Some of the best “would be” teachers out here are those who know the skills from knowledge and experience..Our society, for the most part, does not understand how to transmit knowledge to the next generation. Teacher’s Unions have destroyed that.
Yet your average retired engineer is not qualified to teach due to no degree from a “teaching” college. And that also goes for an engineer with a PE license and a few patents.