Teacher Ready
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grizzlyhare
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Teacher Ready
Is Teacher Ready equivalent, in employers' minds, to a traditional certification route---- i.e. bachelor's of education or an alternative master's certification route with in-class instruction rather than the online courses offered by Teacher Ready.
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shadowjack
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Re: Teacher Ready
No. But either you do teacher ready and already have teaching experience, so it checks the certification box, or you have teacher ready and no experience, in which case you teach in the US for two years and go out and nobody cares, or, you have teacher ready and you are just so desperate to get overseas that you take whatever is offered. Or you luck out and hit a good school with a must fill vacancy and it is a dream. Or something in between.
The bottom line is after you have been teaching awhile nobody cares whether you are teacher ready certified teach now certified or teacher college of nowheresville certified - they only care that you are certified and are a good teacher.
The bottom line is after you have been teaching awhile nobody cares whether you are teacher ready certified teach now certified or teacher college of nowheresville certified - they only care that you are certified and are a good teacher.
Re: Teacher Ready
TeacherReady grad here:
"The bottom line is after you have been teaching awhile nobody cares whether you are teacher ready certified teach now certified or teacher college of nowheresville certified - they only care that you are certified and are a good teacher."
This is 100% correct. I have kept in contact with many people who were in my TR cohort (and we have 4 teachers from different cohorts that currently work at my school) and they have had 0 problems finding a position after getting couple years of experience under their belts. Their skill in the classroom and the recommendations from their superintendents/principals are all anyone cares about now.
In some cases (and maybe some of the admins on here can weigh in on this theory), I suspect that taking the alternative route to certification can be a benefit ESPECIALLY if you had industry experience in your field before pursuing a career as a teacher.
"The bottom line is after you have been teaching awhile nobody cares whether you are teacher ready certified teach now certified or teacher college of nowheresville certified - they only care that you are certified and are a good teacher."
This is 100% correct. I have kept in contact with many people who were in my TR cohort (and we have 4 teachers from different cohorts that currently work at my school) and they have had 0 problems finding a position after getting couple years of experience under their belts. Their skill in the classroom and the recommendations from their superintendents/principals are all anyone cares about now.
In some cases (and maybe some of the admins on here can weigh in on this theory), I suspect that taking the alternative route to certification can be a benefit ESPECIALLY if you had industry experience in your field before pursuing a career as a teacher.
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No, its not equivalent in their minds, but its more about acceptable rather than being equivalent. It really does have far more to do with your success and performance in the classroom than how you got trained in terms of utility and marketability. Whether your good or bad at teaching at that point no body cares how you got trained.
I strongly disagree with @marieh a skills based route such as Teach Ready or Teach Now isnt a benefit compared to an academic route. No one believes that a digital slideshow of the "now" in edu is comparable to a deep understanding and study of the meds/peds/asst that have been developed in edu. Skills trained ITs/DTs are competent consumers of meds/peds/asst, academically trained ITs/DTs make better producers of meds/peds/asst. There is nothing prohibiting a second career DT/IT with industry experience from pursuing an academic route to entering edu.
I strongly disagree with @marieh a skills based route such as Teach Ready or Teach Now isnt a benefit compared to an academic route. No one believes that a digital slideshow of the "now" in edu is comparable to a deep understanding and study of the meds/peds/asst that have been developed in edu. Skills trained ITs/DTs are competent consumers of meds/peds/asst, academically trained ITs/DTs make better producers of meds/peds/asst. There is nothing prohibiting a second career DT/IT with industry experience from pursuing an academic route to entering edu.