Again, to teach you don't need an advanced degree in nuclear physics. A teacher's work is not so difficult that many people couldn't do it. I'm sure those that teach and have PhD's end up in higher roles than teachers even.
I'm not sure where you came up with the fact that your state has a lack of adequately trained teachers, but I wonder if whomever told you that looked into other fields.
-Rudey
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Originally posted by CarolinaCutie
In North Carolina right now, there is such a lack of adequately trained teachers that anyone with any degree that is relevant can teach. You get the teaching job, and you are a "teacher-in-training", teaching classes every day and then going to certification classes on the weekends. Although I value those people because we need teachers so desperately, they do not receive the same amount of education and training that students who major in education receive. If teachers have higher salaries, more intelligent college students will major in Education and receive complete and adequate training in teaching methods. In college today, a student who has interest in Biology is much more likely to major in Biology than Science Education, because they know the salaries have the potential to be higher in biological fields. Many of these students possess aptitudes for educating and motivating others, but they will never consider teaching as a viable career path unless the average teaching salary increases.
So I guess, the bar that needs raising is demanding that new teachers, with a higher amount of pay, be fully trained in education methods and able to pass the teacher entrance exams. Right now, we are at a point where college graduates with sub-par intelligence and educating skills are the vast majority of the future teachers. Obviously, this does not bode well for education in general.
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