Shortage of special education teachers reported as start of scho

The district is planning to hire 1,500 new teachers this school year.

That task force’s report in January cited numerous same problems that educators around the state point to: relatively low pay, high turnover rates that result in little mentorship of young teachers, and an increasing workload for an increasingly under-appreciated job.

It all resembles a platform one might see at a left-wing political conference rather than an organization that supposedly exists to negotiate better terms of employment for school employees – much less from an organization that has boasted in the past of representing many teachers who are conservatives. The starting salary is $32,000 and the national average is $54,000.

Dr. Cecilia Johnson, who recruits teachers for the Arizona Department of Education, said salaries are to blame for losing thousands of educators.

“It is hard. It’s challenging”. “Part of that is because there aren’t a lot of people coming out of college who are certified to teach special education”. “I’m just looking forward to getting started and going”.

“Yes there is a benefit to us of offering that program because there is an offset in the funding that we will receive eventually for having highly qualified special education teacher in those classrooms but that’s not the driver, the driver is actually meeting the needs of students”, she said. Those demands “require them to take less and less time in teaching what they believe as experts should be taught”, she said.

The School and Mass Education branch has sought after expose describe from the originial and Directorate of Teacher Education (TE) and State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) throughout the system deal and extrapolated price for your projected traditional college.

“You need that mentorship”, she said.

For example, the Michigan Education Association, an affiliate of the NEA, reported statistics in its October 2010 Voice magazine showing that 45 percent of teachers under the age of 30 classified themselves as “conservative”, as did 63 percent of teachers between 40 to 49. The count in the summer can change as students move or transfer, leaving districts to wonder, “Are we down a teacher?” Promoting from within is sometimes the only way to hire specialized teachers.