I thought to tack a teaching certificate onto my BA. At Arizona State that’s a six semester program and I demanded my money back at the first mid-term and for cause received it all. The causes?
One class was “Social Studies for Secondary Students” but the Prof thought it more practical to teach Social Skills For Elementary Students because she didn’t believe high schoolers had social skills.
Class two was writing. The idea was to rid yourself of all polysyllabic words and compound sentences. Use no words requiring a dictionary.
The third class was to have been Management but by mid-term the prof had provided 6 syllabuses, 6 semester projects but had yet to make an appearance.
The one value from any of this was the text for the Management class. Some gems from this book: Anyone with a BA or BS is qualified to teach those subjects to secondary students or lower; there’s a direct inverse ratio to the amount of training in education a teacher receives, the more time in a school of education the worse the teacher; Ed school students are the bottom 15% of college students by SAT; there is no correlation between cost per student and student performance compare South Dakota and NYC.
Last I checked Az had some 270 school districts. 100 had no students but they did have office and staff.
