> Veterans who successfully obtain their 5-year temporary teaching certificate will be assigned a mentor teacher for a minimum of two years to support their classroom teaching endeavors. They must also earn their bachelor’s degree during the 5-year period to be eligible for a full professional certificate; the temporary certificate cannot be renewed once it expires.
It’s a temporary pathway for veterans to work as teachers while finishing a bachelor’s degree. (This has been widely misreported in the media.)
Florida only requires substitute teachers have a high school diploma and be trained in the school district’s school safety policies and procedures, ethics, professional responsibilities and liability laws.
I strongly suspect the issue in states claiming a shortage of teachers is due to low salaries. Rather than raise salaries to attract talent, they're lowering hiring standards.
Only 29% of Americans 17-24 are eligible to become a soldier so that makes them a more exclusive class than those eligible to be teachers. Also they have intelligible resumes providing evidence of past job performance.
Don't know. But a considerable part of "I was trained to take responsibility in serious, perhaps life-threatening situations" overlaps. And I suppose that the chances are that anyone who achieved NCO rank has experience teaching others.
From your link, it looks like they have a criterion requiring that the vet has about half a bachelor degree already (60 credits), so it makes sense as a fast pass for college students or an incentive for a near grad dropout to go back and finish.
That seems so weird. Why would they have to stop after five years of teaching? Shouldn't they be better at it by that point?
https://www.fldoe.org/veterans/
They're trying to strongly push them to finish their bachelors (which they must have started), but what an odd program.