Posted on 07/03/2018 5:54:54 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Michigan lawmakers axed a requirement that would make prospective teachers take a basic skills test before earning their certification in Michigan.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation last week to get rid of the law requiring all prospective teachers to take the SAT to become certified in the state of Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Knollenberg, who serves as the state Senate Education Committee chair, said the panel made its decision to make it easier for people to become teachers.
“To me, the good teachers — they’re inspired and have passion. Why should they be burdened with a test that isn’t relevant to the subject matter they teach?” Knollenberg said, adding that the previous system was not an accurate way to “measure competency” in a subject.
National Council on Teacher Quality President Kate Walsh pushed back on the decision Friday, arguing that there needs to be a basic standard for teachers in this country.
“You do need to assess if candidates have basic skills. Can they read and write and are they mathematically literate? There should be some entry standard that’s objective,” Walsh said.
The examination was one of two tests teachers had to take to teach in Michigan. The other test measures competency in the subject matter prospective teachers plan to teach. The second test is still a requirement for those who want to enter the teaching profession in Michigan.
The law would begin to take effect September 25.
Michigan teachers have struggled to hire teachers in STEM fields such as math and science, foreign languages, and special education. The number of teaching certificates issued in the state dropped by nearly half from 1996 to 2016, and the state has resorted to “wining and dining” prospective teachers to convince them to enter the profession.
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Bad Axe, Michigan
No, it is about passing students from grade to grade, finally graduating. Content means nothing compared to passing and graduating. That is how administrators are scored.
And some people wonder why I have such a low regard for public education. Or why our home schooled daughter (age 34) has run rings around public school grads since she was 13.
The average 9th grader when I was in 9th grade (1966) had the reading and math skills of, or superior to, the average high school graduate now. That hasn’t happened in a vacuum.
I am fine with it, as long as there are academic skills testing requirements for the subject(s) the person IS going to teach. Yes, I don’t need a math teacher to pass the history questions on an SAT test, nor to deny them math-teaching credentials due to poor SAT score because they are poor in subjects they will not be teaching.
I just returned yesterday from visiting family in Michigan.some people actually said they were mad At Michigan for voting for Trump. I don’t think they care at this point.Dems are so defeated they just don’t care enough.
Why would they be mad the State went for Trump? Isn’t their economy improving?
“Michigan Axes Basic Skills Test For Teachers”
Translation- Minority teachers cannot pass the Basic Skills Test for Teachers.
ANY company that considers opening facilities in Michigan needs to see this article. Where are they going to get decent employees when the ‘teachers’ are not even tested?
A(2017) related article (NPR liberal spew) mentioning Knollenberg's concern over "teacher shortage", with the usual NPR/MEA spin of blaming it on Republicans for cutting funding, nothing about accountability for the piss-poor product.
You see, the problem is not the quality, it's the quantity...but it goes far beyond that with the ideological bent of 99.9% of colleges here and around the world.
The Soros puppets could care less about your kids obtaining job skills, so long as "they got their minds right" where the agenda is concerned.
...destroy from within...
Meaning...if we can't abort them, control them.
“It’s: Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, 480 or higher; and
Mathematics, 530 or higher. The average score is about 1000.”
I’ve got a going-into-1st grade granddaughter who is showing academic promise. At her current rate of learning, I’d project she should be able to make that score sometime around 6th-grade. The people who can’t make that score are questionable on even passing the “fog a mirror” test.
Let liberal places degenerated into cesspools
SF just lost its first 50m conference
Detroit and Michigan have been lost for ages
And there there is winter too
NYC ? A hell hole run by commies
PHILLY ? my hometown has always been run by the unions mob and now the dindo nuffin crowd
Chicago ? Murder and mayhem capital
America is all about states rights
Some states will make good choices some bad
Cities for the most part same thing. More accelerated
Really angers me because my daughter is a teacher.
Busted her tail in college and graduated Magna Cum Laude.
She teaches at a charter school because hiring in the public schools is totally infested with Affirmative Action and brazen corruption.
Not a problem for me, as I don’t live in ‘those cities’, like Detroit. My WONDERFUL public schools have only the SMARTEST people teaching my precious children, not the TOTAL IDIOTS like they’ll have in Detroit.
...hmmm, they’re still going to test teachers outside of Detroit, right?
But I cannot math for squat. This has been true all my life, not because I can't understand the procedures-- I can. For about a week. I can't retain them. I can pass a class if I work on it every day, but once it's over, come ask me a year later how to do these algebraic or geometric formulas and equations and I couldn't tell you to save my life. Math is simply not my thing.
> Most school districts see military people as positive role models and very capable of enforcing discipline. <
I taught for quite a few years in an urban high school. The whole place was chaotic, except for the Junior ROTC wing.
The JROTC program there was run by a retired colonel - a no-nonsense southern gentleman - and a retired master sergeant who looked like he could beat up the Hulk.
total BS. You can not teach what you do not know.
total BS. You can not teach what you do not know.
“...Why should they be burdened with a test that isn’t relevant to the subject matter they teach?”
I don’t disagree with that, depending upon the subject they’re teaching. I’m intelligent and literate. But I still count on my fingers sometimes (mostly out of habit). You should see the look of disgust on my friend’s face. She has a Masters Degree in Math.
1 + 1 = What you want it to be
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