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NONE!

accountant? no. CFA? no. she’s a freakin’ lawyer for god sake!

In each instance, you can be a professionally qualified person in your field but unable to get a licence to teach becaus eyou lack a teaching certificate.

I believe the 3 year rule makes sense. If you are in any of the above categories and want to teach for an extended period, you should be prepared to undertake the necessary studies to get a teaching licence. If you are teaching on a short term basis (i.e. one year) it may not be practival to get a licence to teach.

I think you are confusing certification with licencing. The licencing that is required is specific to Bermuda through the BEC. Any qualified, certified, and licensed teacher from any other country would not be licensed upon arriving in Bermuda because they would have to do their PD here and pay their fee. Any college graduate with their degree and teacher certification upon return to Bermuda would likewise be unlicensed.

I understand your concern as a parent in that you want qualified individuals for your child’s education. I too am a parent and obviously want the best as well. But not having the Bermuda teaching licence does not mean one is not qualified to teach. It just means that he needs to pay a fee and do the required number of hours of PD in the Bermuda education system. However, if someone is not certified, then they should not be allowed to teach in the K-12 system. I believe this article is talking about unlicensed teachers, not uncertified. If these are uncertified individuals, then I have an issue with it.

The saddest part of what the public doesn’t know, is that the tax payer is paying for these people to do student teaching which should be an anpaid trainign period!!!!!!!!

These exemptions are people who do not meet the basic requirements of teacher certification.

What the article above is referencing are perswons who may have a degree but not in education who are allowed 3 years to complete Teacer Certification program.

Just because you have a degree in math and/or a masters degree does not necessarily qualify you to teach in most public schools, in the US anyway, as one is required to take methodology classes, that are faar more indepth than a general math class.

In any case and any way that you look at it, there are 17 unqualified, uncertified, unlicensed persons teaching our children.

at least, i applaud you for realizing that the current system is failing your child.

Again, it is just the bare minimum requirements, but it is a start, and it is not difficult to do.

Slightly off topic but to give an example of what I mean.

Tiger woods is arguably the greatest golfer there is, does that automatically mean he would be an effective teacher…no.

The Williams sisters are arguably some of the greatest tennis players, but does that mean they would make the best tennis teachers…no.

Would Einstein automatically make a great math teacher…not neccessarily.

A teaching degree and licence is the only thing that we have as parents to know that our kids are being taught by individuals that met certain criteria. I appreciate that there are exceptions to every rule and for those dedicated maybe we can help them.

We need to stop settling for the minimum qualifications for teaching and step up our game. WE tend to settle for the minimum here.

I do agree that certification does not necessarily make a good teacher, but at the same time having multiple degrees in your subject does not necessarily mean that you can teach it well. Having secure subject knowledge is one thing, but being able to teach it effectively is a skill that takes time to develop. Doing a certification course does actually help though.

Yes, college professors usually do not have teaching degrees, this is true. However, their job is to lecture to a room full of hundreds of students, who they have no personal relationship with. Teachers directly manage the learning of 30 students at a time, on a regular basis.

The teaching degree for middle school is not always different from that of secondary school. In the UK, teacher training degrees are divided into primary and secondary, with the latter including middle school. While training you will teach across the entire secondary age range (so M1 to S4 in Bermuda), so a teaching degree is just as useful for primary and middle as it is for senior schools. I understand your concern about the Bed, but the post-graduate teaching qualification is also very common, so your child still can be taught by teachers with multiple specialist degrees.
In regards to your scenario about the class sitting exams that year, ideally, a teacher who is training to be certified should not even be given one of these classes. That is the way it works in the UK (I do not have experience with other education systems at the moment, so I can only speak about what I know). If this is happening in Bermuda, then they should rethink what classes they allow teachers to take.

Certification may not necessarily make a good teacher, but it definitely does less harm than good. Perhaps certification courses should be evaluated before hiring. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to the individual teacher. Those who are not striving to give our children the best should not be teaching. Those who truly care, but the issues of certification and licenses get in the way, should be helped to meet the necessary requirements.

Whay another royal f..k..up

The question is “If you truly cared about your students, would you leave them to someone else (certified substitute(s)) for the 3 months before one of the most important exams of their high school career?” The answer for many has been ‘no’ and it has been for many years, please remember just because a teacher is not certified doesn’t meant they haven’t taught before, or that they are not effective. It simply means they worry more about their students’ performance than jumping governments’ NEW hurdle. I have had a non certified teacher before; and he was one of the best teachers I had ever encountered, and his reasoning for not working on it was the above situation. He said he couldn’t live with himself if he got his second degree and we failed our IGCSE’s.
Certification does not make a good teacher, that was proven by the Hopkin’s Report; almost 50% of the lessons taught were sub-par, but only around 10% of the teachers were non-certified. If certification ensured quality, that number would be a lot different.

Explain that one Ms Ex-Premier that just has no other means of money and has resorted to a career in Politricks like all your other PLP wannabe millionairs!

Ya….l said it…………

It’s all about class and perception.

It is obvious that you have no clue when it comes to the education system in this country…you can have a qualified teacher who is unlicenced and it is possible to be licenced and a non-certified teacher.