I am a career educator--a classroom teacher, a school administrator, a member of central administration, and the curriculum and instruction director of an online education program. I would like to compare this assault on instructor quality with the formal education system.
Every state in the U.S. has very similar requirements. To be a teacher, you have to complete college and teacher preparation program. You have to do internships and student teaching. You have to pass state teacher exams. Once hired, you are usually put into a supervised program designed to help new teachers. You are also in an evaluation system in which experienced and trained administrators examine the quality of your teaching on a regular basis, striving to help you improve or terminate you if you are not doing a good job. You are also required to complete additional training every few years in order to retain your certification.
All of this is many times beyond the best quality assurance program any scuba agency could ever hope to attain.
And yet we have crappy teachers everywhere.
I can assure you that every agency has crappy instructors. I can't see how it can be otherwise. They cannot hope to attain anything close to the level of training and supervision found in the public school systems, so how can you expect them to be any better than that?
If it makes you feel good to make a mindless and very trite bash on an agency, go ahead. If you believe that thinking and knowledgeable people are impressed by your rants, well...
Every state in the U.S. has very similar requirements. To be a teacher, you have to complete college and teacher preparation program. You have to do internships and student teaching. You have to pass state teacher exams. Once hired, you are usually put into a supervised program designed to help new teachers. You are also in an evaluation system in which experienced and trained administrators examine the quality of your teaching on a regular basis, striving to help you improve or terminate you if you are not doing a good job. You are also required to complete additional training every few years in order to retain your certification.
All of this is many times beyond the best quality assurance program any scuba agency could ever hope to attain.
And yet we have crappy teachers everywhere.
I can assure you that every agency has crappy instructors. I can't see how it can be otherwise. They cannot hope to attain anything close to the level of training and supervision found in the public school systems, so how can you expect them to be any better than that?
If it makes you feel good to make a mindless and very trite bash on an agency, go ahead. If you believe that thinking and knowledgeable people are impressed by your rants, well...