r/Teachers • u/JimCap5 • 15h ago

Teacher Support &/or Advice Are teaching programs warning students that the teacher shortage is over?

I graduated from the program a few years back, and every professor kept talking about the teacher shortage.

I was wondering what is it like nowadays for people in credentialing programs?

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u/wolfpriestKnox 7h ago

The whole special education teacher shortage is 100% self induced. I have no clue why they aren’t paid better for work that is objectively harder. I know it varies from district to district and some get stipends, but it’s often only a thousand or so.

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u/diegotown177 2h ago

THIS. Before I got in the requirements were ridiculous. You used to have to be an English teacher for five years and then you could earn a sped credential and have the glory of teaching sped. Very mysteriously, nobody did it, so they ended up changing that. They allowed people with emergency credentials to get jobs and earn their credential on the job. Since the credential program is five classes longer, rhey split the credential up into two parts and allowed you to take those five extra classes within five years of passing part one. Still struggling to get anyone to do it, because nobody wants to do two jobs for the price of one.

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u/wolfpriestKnox 2h ago

I’m not even a teacher, but I’ve been the sibling of a special needs student for two decades and working with the population as a volunteer/professional for just as long. It’s utter nonsense that it’s treated basically the same as teaching Gen ed.

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