Citing staff shortage, Alabama starts paying student teachers to lead classrooms

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Alabama school districts are getting creative in how they recruit and retain teachers. One solution: Paying student interns during their time in the classroom. Two experiments are underway.

According to the Alabama State Department of Education, about 50 student interns are leading classrooms and being paid as long-term substitutes for the current school year.

But Kinney said she has concerns about putting interns into the classroom too early, saying learning instructional skills is a process. Superintendent Mike Daria said the district will pilot a program to pay up to 10 student interns during their internship – which will be a traditional internship, complete with a lead teacher to oversee the intern. Students will receive $1,200 each beginning in January.

Daria said currently the district has two student interns serving as long-term substitutes, but that the new pilot should be seen more as an “early commit” program. And earlier this year, officials allowed various combinations of GPAs and teacher test scores to serve as final certification requirements.

 

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Experiment 1: pay someone unqualified less to the same job.

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