H.S. Future Teachers Being Prepped for Common Core and Competency-Based Education
We hear we have a serious problem finding teachers for America’s classrooms. One solution is to encourage students in high school to become career teachers.
Young people are full of vibrant ideas and high school should be considered a valuable place for teacher recruitment. I am not saying we should push students to be teachers, but high schools have long used clubs and after-school activities to help young people understand the kinds of careers that are available.
But the new process to do this appears corrupted. It leads to Common Core and digital instruction.
As a high school student in the ‘60s, I participated in Future Teachers of America. I shadowed teachers, corrected papers, and worked with children. The club was sponsored by teachers at my school. FTA is still around. It is updated, though it looks somewhat like what I remember.
But there is another organization called Educators Rising. If you visit this website, the program, by the sound of the students describing their experiences, sounds great–at H.S. Future Teachers Being Prepped for Common Core and Competency-Based Education: