Growing Ranks of Encore Teachers Give Schools a Boost
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Teaching is emerging as the encore career of choice, as career switchers flock to teacher training programs around the country.
The surge of interest is being driven by both passion and practicality, say program managers who are trying to respond to the increased demand from people eager to get into the classroom. The chronic teacher shortage, particularly in math, science, special education and inner-city schools, makes education seem like a safe long-term choice in a tumultuous economy, despite budget cuts and even layoffs in many school districts. Experts anticipate as many as 1.5 million teaching vacancies over the next decade.
“Our program is growing exponentially,” says Rebecca Waters, who manages the Virginia Community College System’s career-switcher program. It trained 76 new teachers this spring, compared to 61 last year and 50 in 2007. “I personally have spoken with more and more people over the last few weeks who report having been laid off from their jobs and are exploring their options with us.”
Collin College, near Dallas, has fielded 900 inquiries about its fast-track teacher preparation programs – twice as many as last year.
The EnCorps Teachers initiative expects to place more than 150 new math and science teachers in California classrooms during the 2009-10 school year. EnCorps has received more than 1,000 inquiries in the past three months.
“We are targeting boomers and retirees,” says Jennifer Anastasoff, CEO of EnCorps, which was launched in 2007 by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sherry Lansing, former chair of Paramount Pictures. “There are programs like Teach for America for new graduates, The New Teacher Project for midcareer folks, and alternative certification programs bubbling up around the country, but nothing that brings it all together for retirees the way that EnCorps strives to.”
EnCorps is hosting an open house in Los Angeles on June 5. Anastasoff says would-be teachers can start as volunteers to refamiliarize themselves with the classroom, try substitute teaching or jump right into the program, which can fast-track them into the classroom in six to nine months.
Another route into the classroom is the nonprofit Citizen Schools, which places “Citizen Teachers” in 10-week apprenticeships in public middle-school classrooms. It serves 4,400 youths at 44 sites in seven states with 3,500 volunteers, 120 paid fellows and 230 paid team leaders.
The organization is seeing twice as much interest in its paid positions this year, compared to last year, says Emily McCann, president of the organization. Many of the candidates are career-switchers seeking to transition from the corporate world, she says. “And we’re just starting to recruit for next year, so we’ll probably get a lot more.” It didn’t hurt when the White House cited Citizen Schools as as an example of “innovative, promising ideas that are transforming communities.”
Teaching, as well as working with children and youth, were near the top of the list of most desired encore careers in last year’s MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore Career Survey. Another survey, Teaching as a Second Career, found that 42 percent of college-educated Americans aged 24 to 60 would consider becoming a teacher.
That survey found that potential teachers consider teaching personally rewarding and a chance to make a difference, but that the field’s low pay is a major obstacle. The American Federation of Teachers reported the average beginning salary for teachers in 2004-05, the most recent data available, was $31,753.
Nearly all states offer alternative teacher certification programs for people who have bachelor’s degrees in the subject they will teach, but lack the required courses for certification. In some states, a provisional license allows second career teachers to begin teaching immediately. Because of teacher shortages in some areas and subject matters, many states are extending temporary emergency licenses to prospective teachers who hold bachelor’s degrees.
The career-switching boomers are hitting the classroom just as other members of their generation are leaving. The National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) and other organizations are sounding the alarm about an anticipated teacher shortage. NCTAF estimates that one-third of our most accomplished educators will retire in the next four years – 100,000 during the 2010-11 year alone.
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شات ودردشة نسيتك , شات سعودي , دردشة سعودية , موقع شات شات شات نسيتك شات سعودي دردشة شات كتابى سعودي دردشة كتابية شات كتابي احلي شات كتابي سعودي في موقع نسيتك دوت كوم ادخل وتمتع بالشات شات سعودي
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شاهدت الافلام العربية بالقسم ستجد ايضا قسم افلام اجنبية افلام اجنبية ايضا لمشاهدة اخبار الفن والفنانين فوووت علي قسم اخبار الفن والفنانين
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CA Boomers Go Back to School to Teach Math, Science
In the next 10 years, California will need 33,000 more math and science teachers. Last weekend, more than 120 math, engineering, and science professionals stepped up to help start filling these vacancies in high-need schools around the state.
I flew from DC to Los Angeles to join these inspiring Boomers on the first day of EnCorps Teachers’ “Boot Camp” at the University of Southern California. Jennifer Anastasoff, EnCorps’s founding CEO, assured the gathering that even in a time of uncertain funding for public education, “the need for math and science teachers is still here… and growing.” She encouraged teacher candidates to think of themselves as learning to be “Classsroom CEOs” — each in charge of a vision, a set of operating procedures, and a clear learning plan for their students.
Keynote speaker David Carr from Green Dot Public Charter Schools emphasized what an important job aspiring math and science teachers are preparing to do. “At 9 years old,” he said, “a child in an inner city school is already two years behind his or her peers… The classroom is where the playing field gets leveled. It’s where change can happen, where change needs to happen.”
The EnCorps Teachers Program, just two years old and growing fast, has three pathways for people interested in teaching math and science in areas of California that have the greatest need for new teachers in these fields. You can prepare to be a full-time teacher, a long-or short-term substitute, or a consistent tutor for students who need extra help in a specific subject. To learn more, visit the EnCorps web site at www.encorpsteachers.org.
Not in California, and interested in a teaching career? Read Terry Nagel’s original post on new pathways to teaching for opportunities in your state.
Financial Traders; Math Teachers/New Jersey Seeks Encore Talent
A new program at Montclair State University, Traders to Teachers, allows displaced financial services employees to obtain public school certification to teach mathematics in just three months.
The program, a collaboration between the College of Education & Human Services and the College of Science & Mathematics, will begin in September. The fall cohort is already full; the program is accepting applications for January 2010. Applicants must pass a math aptitude test and complete an application process that includes spending one day observing in schools. The New Jersey Department of Labor funds the cost of the program for participants.
For more information, visit the Traders to Teachers web site.
South Carolina's encore teacher initiative
Mark Bounds, South Carolina’s deputy superintendent for educator quality and leadership, says his state has one of the country’s best encore career teaching programs, with 1,500 teachers currently enrolled. All the alternative-certification efforts are unified in one place (more info at www.scteachers.org). Career-switchers with B.A. degrees get in the classroom quickly (and thus get paid) while they get three years of training and mentorship to be better teachers. The average age is 34, and many new teachers are in their 50s and 60s.
“We’ve got engineers, we’ve got bank presidents,” Bounds told me in a phone call. “Everybody’s got the story that ‘I always wanted to teach. It just took me 20 years to find that out.’”
Bounds himself is a career-switcher, moving into education after 20 years in the military. We’re looking forward to finding out more about the state’s PACE (Program for Alternative Certification for Educators) program.
David Bank
Editor, Encore.org
Try Out Teaching & Boost Summertime Learning for Youth
If you’re thinking about a new career in teaching, volunteering in a classroom or after-school program can be a great way to try out whether this is work you’d enjoy. And summer is a perfect time — because many young people need extra support when school is out of session, so that they don’t experience what experts call “summer learning loss.” Johns Hopkins University’s National Center for Summer Learning notes that “Most students lose about two months of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation skills over the summer months. Low-income students also lose more than two months in reading achievement, despite the fact that their middle-class peers make slight gains.”
How can you help? Check out state and regional networks in your area or look for opportunities to participate in Summer Learning Day on July 9. You can also contact the organizations in Terry Nagel’s post, like EnCorps Teachers in California, the community-college alternative certification options, or Citizen Schools.
And I’d love to have you join the Encores for Education and Youth discussion group! Take 2 minutes to join our community at encore.org. Thanks!