{"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":"","rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2891],"tags":[26,2892,2893,23,2894,27],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-test-preparation","tag-teacher-certification","tag-teacher-scholarships","tag-teacher-scholarships-texas","tag-teacher-shortage","tag-texas-scholarships","tag-utah-teacher"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-12-18 11:25:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_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}]}}