Recruiting/Training Teachers
There are two theories regarding teaching. Both agree that teachers need to have mastery of their content area.

Those who advocate “short cuts” to the classroom maintain that effective teachers need only strong content-area knowledge and strong verbal ability, both of which can easily be tested.

Advocates for teacher preparation say that the “how to teach” knowledge, especially in America’s increasingly diverse classrooms, is equally important. Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Patricia Avery, says that many people think that because they have gone through school as a student, they know how to teach simply by having participated in a classroom. “Teaching,” says Avery, “is planning learning experiences in a sequenced fashion that take different turns depending upon how learners respond—this is not something you just pick up.”