Re: Certification Changes in Florida and elsewhere

[Vicki Sherouse <sherouse@MARSWEB.COM>]

I am not sure if this information from Florida is correct, but wanted to ask
for comments about a certification program I just heard about.  One attends
a 3 week program this summer, takes a 4 hr. kiddie/ya course next year,
student teaches during the year on their planning period, takes another 3
week program next summer and voila a 6 week wonder librarian.  The
"professors" have also never been school librarians.  I know there is a
shortage of certified librarians, but what will happen to our profession if
people truly untrained become "certified."  Some I know will learn it all on
the job, through lm-net and other routes, but many will only believe that
they know what a librarian needs to know--after all they will have passed
the "test" or have been "certified."

 I wonder what principals, or guidance counselors, or math teachers, or
music teachers, etc. would think if I proposed to be "certified" in their
area with 6 weeks of study. How do we fight these "certification" programs?

Vicki Sherouse, Librarian
Sentinel High School
Missoula, Montana
sherouse@marsweb.com

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