Miami wants to address the teacher crisis in America by hiring students to teach

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Agostina Damiano is a young student in the final year of her Arts degree and will soon be starting high school at Miami Dade College (MDC) in Florida to become a special education teacher.


But in no time he’ll be able to practice his profession while studying for his degree, thanks to a joint initiative between this educational institution, one of the largest in the United States, and the Miami-Dade County Public School System. Thank you.

“I heard about this program that it gives me the opportunity to study and work, at least for me, it opens many doors for me because I just arrived,” said the young woman who joined the United States from Argentina. Moved to the United States for a while more than a year ago in search of new professional opportunities.

Jose Dotres, the superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public School System, explains that “this type of initiative is needed all over the United States” due to teacher shortages. This program is similar to the internship period that all education science students must go through, but now with the feature that they will be charged for it.


“Typically, to be a teacher there is an internship that lasts about 14 weeks and usually it is someone entering the degree and they have to spend that time without getting paid. Now, in this new With the model, which I am very optimistic about, students who take admission in this boarding school become resident teachers and start getting paid,” said Dotres.
 
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