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Do you mean an emphasis on phonics? I think this is a good thing on paper. I just hope it's not the return of the Open Court police. That curriculum was tearfully boring.
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More info?
Teachers who are K-12, Sped, ELA, or elementary licensed will have to take 80 hours if literacy (on Saturdays), take/retake the Praxis, just to name a few things. One of our teachers jumped in and started her 80 hours, and was told there was a proctor monitoring the attendees, and they could not be off-screen for more than 10 minutes.
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All teachers or new teachers? Wow. Do you have to do it in the next year or a number of years? A one-time thing? Who pays for it? In MN, we have to do like 125 hours every five or six years of training for relicensure.
And I love the whole proctor idea! 🙄
Are you talking the LETRS training? The training itself isn't horrible unless you are not K-3, then it's irritating because you have to modify all the coursework for your three monitored students. I teach middle/high school ELL so there are some areas that cross over but all the materials were too babyish for me to really use. I did actually use parts of what we learned in my lessons and it was helpful. I don't know what the training will look like for 4-12 educators.
And it's your district that is requiring Saturdays. I had three PD days for this training. The morning was spent working on the modules and the afternoon was collaboration and application. Now, it took way longer than those three days to complete it and I'm not sure how other teachers handled it but I was able to complete the modules during the school hours. I didn't pay the extra for the grad credit so I started the portfolio but didn't finish it. If I'm asked for the portfolio by my supervisor, then I'll show him a completed portfolio.
And I used completing this training as one of my professional goals so it was a double-dip.
The state of Texas created Reading Academies to address the terrible dip in reading scores over the last decade. It seems similar in it's requirements, 80 hours using the science of teaching reading. There is a whole lot of fluff in the training that has nothing to do with phonics but that's government for you.