If you have a High School diploma and a training class you can be hired as a Teacher now in Oklahoma.

[DavidMcmillan]

I try to avoid intentionally subjecting myself to being bullshi**ed

That’s the method most seem to use in order to prevent accidentally coming upon a bit of truth.

 

[Gunbuffer]

How many here have actually spoken with teachers and administrators?

If anyone cares, I just finished teaching my first semester of public HS. Total outsider, 51 years old
Ask me anything

 

[Snattlerake]

I fail to see how only requiring a high school diploma is going to make it easier for someone like a doctor to transition into teaching (why in the world would they anyway). If that doctor's credentials didn't qualify them to teach something related to their field what's the point?

I have a BS in Environmental Health Science and an MPH in Occupational Health and Safety. My entire career has consisted of me teaching people safe food handling, proper safety precautions and conducting inspections for both. I'm confident I could step into a classroom and teach public health now, but I could definitely benefit from a course on classroom management.

 

[Snattlerake]

I indied has an HS deploma and a traning class in asalt weppons. Kin I teech two?

Yep, you can even teech three.

 

[THAT Gurl]

Getting into teaching now is akin to self-immolation, regardless
Of your degree or certification.

As much as I would like to teach, this is the reality of it. Even if the kids were okay (and generally speaking I tend to be able to deal with the kids) the parents would drive me to actions that would land me on the 6 o'clock news ... It is good to know your limitations.

 

[WoodsCraft]

That’s the method most seem to use in order to prevent accidentally coming upon a bit of truth.

Yeah getting a bit of truth from a school administrator is like getting a bit of truth from a congressman

 

[chuter]

How many here have actually spoken with teachers and administrators?

I used to do computer support for the college of education at UCO; does that count?

 

[SoonerP226]

If anyone cares, I just finished teaching my first semester of public HS. Total outsider, 51 years old
Ask me anything

Why are you pushing the younguns into being deviants?

 

[crrcboatz]

Scary!

 

[rawhide]

This is the second time I've seen this article shared and I think is misleading at best. Reads like a tabloid story.

This one helps clarify a little.

New Oklahoma law allows adjunct teachers to become full-time educators; does not loosen teaching requirements

Senate Bill 1119 strips away the maximum hours adjunct teachers can teach in a class from 270 hours. Local school districts now determine that number.

kfor.com

Emergency certification and/or adjunct status is not new. Adjunct can also be a certified teacher teaching a subject outside of the area of their degree. I don't have the most recent numbers at my fingertips, but my best guess is that about half of all teacher applicants are not teacher trained. I known and worked with many alternative certified teachers with degrees (including doctorates) in law, chemical engineering, math, etc. Many of them became highly effective and outstanding teachers. I don't know any of them that would say they wouldn't have benefited from teacher training.