All this talk about charter school made me curious about how
the TEACHERS are selected. We know how
charter schools are established, we know how students are selected, we know
that in many cases teachers are offered but not required to join the union, but
we haven’t really talked about how charter schools hire their teachers. I did some research and found this
website which give some insight to the requirements that are expected from
charter school teachers. The website
also allows future teachers to search for charter schools that they may want to
apply to for a position. Although the
information on this site is not very detailed, I found out that the
requirements vary from state to state.
Whereas some states will require all charter school teachers to be
certified, other states may only require a certain percent of their teachers to
be certified. Being certified may give you
more of an advantage of being hired and may help you negotiate a higher salary.
I decided to look up Ohio and see if our charter school teachers
are required to be certified. I found this list of the states
which have enacted charter school laws.
Ohio does require charter school teachers to be certified, HOWEVER
noncertified teachers are allowed to teach up to 12 hours per week. States such as Arizona, Georgia and Texas do
not require charter schools to hire certified teachers. This of course does not mean that individual
schools cannot have old higher requirements for their schools than what the
state requires. It’s pretty interesting
to read up on.
I find it interesting that non-certified teachers can spend so much time in the school teaching. I work at an after care program at a charter school and a lot of the classrooms have two teachers, I'm curious to see if one of those teachers is not certified and is only there half days. I'm not sure how I feel about having non-certified teachers spending so much time in the classroom. I'm also curious how certified teachers feel about this as well, seeing as they did take the time to become certified. Do they receive the same benefits?
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the most interesting posts that's I have read on here so far. We have discussed so much about the students that become part of the charter schools and nobody has taken the time to bring up the education of the teachers, until now. While I am not surprised that some charter schools don't require you to be licensed I am surprised at how many accept teachers that don't have licenses. This website is very useful in helping to find jobs for people that are interested in charter schools and can be a pathway to many openings in schools. I don't think that it should be a requirement for teachers to have their licenses because there are a lot of people out their that have not gotten their licenses and are still amazing teachers!!
ReplyDeleteThis is something that I have never thought of and really surprises me. The fact that no one really ever talks about this is interesting to me, especially when people are fighting so hard to make sure charter schools do not come into there school. I think this could also make a difference when it comes to how the schools preform.
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