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Indiana School Teachers Must Major in the Subject They Teach
Posted on | January 8, 2010 | No Comments
“…the new rules require those who teach grades 5-12 to earn baccalaureate degrees in the subjects they teach. This creates a better balance in teacher preparatory programs between coursework on how to teach and subject-specific training on what they will teach.
Dr. James Fraser, senior vice president for programs for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and professor of History and Education at New York University, said, “The proposal to require every future secondary school teacher in Indiana to complete a full discipline-specific arts and sciences major makes very good sense. A solid major in the discipline to be taught is an essential minimum to truly knowing the content one aspires to teach.”
via The Two Million Minutes Blog: Indiana Makes Bold Move in Teacher Certification and Licensing.
This makes me want to move to Indianapolis! While school systems in other countries, especially India, China, Singapore, Korea, etc, have made huge strides with rigorous academic standards and high proficiency, I think the place the American education system can create the most value is by tightly binding concepts to real world application. I think this is another variation on the way some universities hire professors with industry experience and encourage industrial-academic cooperation.
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