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NancyB
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# Posted: 29 Mar 2007 14:48:38
Does having your MA in English Literature (for example) mean you're qualified to be an educator???
I found this article interesting and wanted to engage the teaching community with it. The article addresses the future of the teaching profession, and what defines a qualified teacher. It mentions two opposing groups: Professionalism Advocates and Deregulation Advocates:
http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22354/26969/?CMP=KNC-DC_YSM_6
Can you expand on this? What's your opinion?
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lizhobart
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# Posted: 9 Aug 2007 12:49:49
I had been wondering the same thing, oddly enough, and thought the article gave two interesting takes on what makes a teacher. Thanks a lot, Nancy!
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# Posted: 18 May 2008 00:43:42
There is a huge difference between being a qualified teacher, an experenced teacher, a popular teacher and an effective teacher. Qualified teachers include though with short-term course certificates (CELTA, TEFL certifcates), PG certificates or BEds. Employers expect these teachers to come to the job with the knowledge and skills necessary to teach well. Experienced teachers has done it before and so employers expect them to be able to do it again. However, someone with 5 year's experience may just have 1 year's experience repeated 5 times! The popular teachers will have good personalities regardless of their teaching ability. BUT the teachers that we should be talking about are effective ones, who have the personality, the knowledge and the skills. More likely than not they will be experienced and qualified, but the qualification in MHO is unlikely to be an MA from a British university - MAs from the States are more practical, I've been told.
John
www.excel-english.com
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