The phrase "alternative teachers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to educators who employ non-traditional methods or approaches in teaching.
Example: "In our school, we have a program that focuses on alternative teachers who use innovative techniques to engage students."
Alternatives: "non-traditional educators" or "innovative teachers".
Teachers with alternative preparation cluster strongly in such "high demand" subjects as math and science; 29% of such "alternative" teachers teach math and another 33% teach science.
Rather than validate creationism as an alternative, teachers must explain that a belief in evolution is not contradictory to their spirituality.
As an alternative, teachers with credentials in states that are in compliance with the curriculum requirements set by the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification Interstate Agreement usually do not have to submit to additional testing in order to receive teacher certification in Alabama.
But Fuhrman finds the birth of alternative teacher schools "upsetting".
That is why we not only need a renewed national commitment to teaching, but alternative teacher certification programs like the one we have adopted in New York City.
Virginia has one of the most streamlined programs for career changers and is among the 47 states that accept alternative teacher training.
Other states have begun allowing for-profits to enter the alternative teacher training market, but Texas has done so to the greatest extent, according to Emily Feistritzer, president of the National Center for Alternative Certification.
In a swipe at colleges of education, for example, the administration deemed neophytes enrolled in alternative teacher training courses "highly qualified," thus lowering the standards already in place in many states.
To help school districts fill vacancies in such perennially hard-to-fill fields as foreign languages, mathematics and science, Pace University and the Putnam/ Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services are starting an alternative teacher certification program in March.
The alarm it sounded about declining competitiveness touched off a tidal wave of reforms: state standards, charter schools, alternative teacher-certification programs, more money, more test-based "accountability" and, since 2001, two big federal programs, No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top.
This study examined the impact of the 2+2 Alternative Teacher Performance Appraisal System that has been implemented in Shanxi province in China.
