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<blockquote data-quote="rawhide" data-source="post: 3927950" data-attributes="member: 3448">This is the second time I&#039;ve seen this article shared and I think is misleading at best.&nbsp; Reads like a tabloid story.This one helps clarify a little. [URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://kfor.com/news/local/new-oklahoma-law-allows-adjunct-teachers-to-become-full-time-educators-does-not-loosen-teaching-requirements/[/URL]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.&nbsp; I don&#039;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&#039;t know any of them that would say they wouldn&#039;t have benefited from teacher training.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rawhide, post: 3927950, member: 3448"] 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. [URL unfurl="true"]https://kfor.com/news/local/new-oklahoma-law-allows-adjunct-teachers-to-become-full-time-educators-does-not-loosen-teaching-requirements/[/URL] 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. [/QUOTE]

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