My friend introduced me to this blog last night. It's by the founder of the charter school where he will be working next year as a tutor/trainee. Tutors spend time during the week helping out in classrooms, co-teaching, and working one-on-one with students and then attend classes and workshops at night and on the weekends. It's a lot like TFA only:
1. training takes a whole year, rather than 5 weeks, and
2. the program completely ignores the need for traditional certification.
That is, at the end of the year, he *won't* be certified as a teacher and so will really only be eligible to teach in charter schools. I guess the underlying philosophy is that undergoing any traditional certification program is a waste of time.
Here was a particularly good post: http://www.startinganedschool.org/2011/01/18/college-guidance-what-to-do-when-a-mediocre-performer-says-harvard/
makes sure to read his answer in the comments!
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