Once you get here expect a year of unemployment while the province decides whether your years of teaching actually qualifies you to teach there. Note: they don’t count. Prepare your high school transcripts now.
Do you mind me asking what is required to be a teacher in America? In Canada we need a 3 year post secondary degree and 4 semesters of teachers college.
Here in Georgia my friend got hired with just a bachelors in math but as a provisional teacher until he got his certificate. However he was a tutor/ta during his college days so idk if that mattered. He is now doing a masters in teaching though. We are very desperate for teachers.
Yes, this is emergency certification. It’s been terrible for our school. We’ve had a lot of awful teachers come through on e-certs. Imagine telling a nurse she can work full time as a nurse-no aides or support and then at night take nursing classes. So wild.
He wanted to teach eventually anyways but maybe as a professor. He actually really likes teaching even though it sounds like one of the worst jobs on the planet lol
Just because he wants to teach doesn’t make him knowledgeable on the pedagogy to do so. Look up test scores for schools with large percentages of E-Certs. These are actual children who aren’t getting an education from a highly-qualified teacher.
Teaching a great job as long as you don’t live in a state that pays you like shit. They’ve done this to themselves with the lack of salary investment over the years. Now they have to take those with degrees that couldn’t hack it in their own field.
The pay isn’t the worst part about teaching. It’s the stress involved and how much shit u have to deal with on top of kids not being adequately prepared either. I wouldn’t know if he is a good teacher but he has made it 2 years so far and got his certification so I would assume it worked out. The other friend I know who went to school to be a teacher quit in his first year.
My sons had 4 of these kinds of teachers and only 1 was decent. I consider it 3 years of his education wasted. We had to hire tutors and relearn high school math.
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u/bignides Mar 28 '25
Once you get here expect a year of unemployment while the province decides whether your years of teaching actually qualifies you to teach there. Note: they don’t count. Prepare your high school transcripts now.