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I learned more in the first 90 minutes of my first substituting job than I learend in any college teaching course. … I am certifed to teach social studies to middle school students, but even though I had a BA with a double-major in political science and history, an MS in International Affairs, and graduated fromthe Army’s command and General Staff College, I am “unqualified” to teach social studies to 9th graders, needing to complete three “secondary school methods courses” in order to check that box.

Another:

I am a recently retired Biology/Physics teacher
Over the years, as a senior teacher, mentor and science department chair, I was responsible for training or retraining teachers who had received mostly useless teacher training at the local universities.
#1- Get rid of all PhD Education profs and replace them with successful teachers nearing the end of their careers
#2- Do it as a paid internship- half day teaching under close supervision, half day teacher training from retired administrators and teachers.
#3- One semester to one year while they “solo” under pop-in supervision, meeting for feedback twice a week