Your implication in that last line is that it doesn’t take any training to be an effective teacher. I disagree. And are you really sure there’s “no evidence that education courses improve a teacher’s classroom performance”? That’s a tall claim. It could be true, but I’m not just going to take your word on it. If it’s anecdotal evidence you’re claiming, I can give you at least one teacher who does need education courses for every teacher you give me who doesn’t.

So instead of improving things, you say we just throw it out. That’s no way to raise the quality of instruction (or instructors). Further, I highly doubt that your rationale lead to SB1209. That might be good post rationalization, but it’s not what got us here.

These courses are not of any benefit to a teacher’s classroom performance. The universities make a lot of money ,peddling this anti-intellectual junk. There is no evidence that education courses improve a teacher’s classroom performance I have seen many new college graduates, who have never taken an education course, excel in the classroom.