Pa. officials touted the new program Monday and issued a “call to action” for continued efforts to attract more teachers.
Melody Dorsainvil, a Temple University education student and Philadelphia School District student teacher, speaks Monday at a news conference about growing the teaching profession. Dorsainvil is currently student teaching in a second grade class at Hunter Elementary in North Philadelphia.When a family emergency hit, aspiring Philadelphia educator Melody Dorsainvil wasn’t sure how she would complete her unpaid student teaching assignment.
Eventually, her Temple University professors scrambled and she was able to make it work, but Dorsainvil — who’s now loving her time student teaching in a second-grade classroom at Hunter Elementary in North Philadelphia — says for many of her peers, there are too many barriers to becoming a teacher in Pennsylvania.
But, Dillon said, “more money for facilities, technology, and programming won’t mean a thing if we can’t keep good teachers in our classrooms.”“Imagine being expected to hold a master’s degree only to earn a salary that can barely cover your rent and your student loan payments,” he said. And, he said, “maybe the worst part is the shift on how teachers are perceived and treated.”
Monika Shealey, dean of Temple’s College of Education and Human Development, said the student teacher stipend — which so far has $10 million in funding, though advocates have called for $75 million — will help plug holes in the pipeline. But, she said, it’s “long overdue.” “For some reason, we think that student teachers and teachers should be doing their work as a matter of community service,” said Shealey. “It’s a profession.”
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