{"id":968,"date":"2016-06-14T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=968"},"modified":"2016-07-07T21:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T21:21:13","slug":"utahs-teaching-door-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/utahs-teaching-door-wide-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah&#8217;s Teaching Door is WIDE Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Utah State Board of Education has opened the door to the teaching profession in order to alleviate a severe \u00a0teacher shortage in the state according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865656015\/State-School-Board-Teacher-shortage-poses-immediate-needs-for-Utah-students.html?pg=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deseret News<\/a>. Utah has seen a significant decline in prospective teachers coming out of colleges of education. In 2012 they had 2,586 graduates dropping last year to only 2,364 \u2013 an 8.5% decline in just three years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, they don\u2019t even think they have hit bottom yet. And they continue to see significantly higher first year retention problems then other states.<\/p>\n<p>So the State Board of Education adopted a new rule on Friday, June 10, 2016 to allow more subject matter experts into the classroom:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo qualify, applicants must have a bachelor&#8217;s degree or higher, submit college transcripts to education administrators, pass the Utah test required for teacher certification, complete an educator ethics review and pass a background check.<\/p>\n<p>Once they enter a school, the prospective instructor must gain at least three years of supervision and mentoring from a &#8220;master teacher&#8221; designated by the school before they receive the level of licensure held by most teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, this is very similar to our alternative teacher certification route so it looks like we need a visit to Utah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Utah State Board of Education has opened the door to the teaching profession in order to alleviate a severe \u00a0teacher shortage in the state according to the Deseret News. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2413,2416,1788,1786,2264,1787,1789,2417,2275,2280,2326,2415,1905,2632,2154,2155,2759,2250,2049,2266,1915,2048,2297,2069,1957,2624,1982,1959,1981,1958,1960,2625,2758,1745,1831,1919,1904,2117,2116,2260,1765,2276,2419,1835,1830,1834,2249,2887,2881,2882,2880,2879,2631,2630,2050,2051,2299,2878,2647,2119,2277,1875,1936,2278,1743,2756,2204,2205,2259,2649,2247,2757,2327,2324,1935,2118,2068,1918,1832,2153,2151,2418,2300,2296,2203,2046,2302,2884,2279,2298,1767,2755,2328,2325,2414,1833,1872,1873,1874,1744,26,2067,1961,1962,1983,2047,1937,1764,2152,1934,2648,2248,1766,2045,23,1916,1917,2265,2267,1920,2186,2188,2883,2103,2885,2886,2268,27,2645,2646,2185,2644,2246,2187,2301,2258,2257,2256],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/media\/Teacher-Shortage-1.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-15 07:33:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}