{"id":104,"date":"2007-11-05T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=104"},"modified":"2007-11-05T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T17:25:23","slug":"alternatives-to-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/04\/business\/04frame.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\">article<\/a> details an alternative to teacher certification programs, one that&#8217;s apparently based upon student teachers spending lots of time in the classroom.  <\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a great program.  <\/p>\n<p>My only question &#8212; why is it that most alternative routes to certification claim to be moving outside of the university setting but don&#8217;t actually eliminate university coursework?  In other words, intern candidates may BEGIN teaching but they still have to complete university courses to get certified.  <\/p>\n<p>As a graduate of a teacher education program, and as a teacher educator, I do believe that there is great worth in a university based certification.  But if we&#8217;re going to create alternative routes, let&#8217;s make sure they&#8217;re actually something different.  <\/p>\n<p>This sort of staff development school, where teachers certify new teachers, now that&#8217;d be something.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article details an alternative to teacher certification programs, one that&#8217;s apparently based upon student teachers spending lots of time in the classroom. Sounds like a great program. My only question &#8212; why is it that most alternative routes to certification claim to be moving outside of the university setting but don&#8217;t actually eliminate university &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alternatives to certification<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-1G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}