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Show search study pertains to the quality of Utah teachers. According Ac-cording to the report, "the level of academic training among Utah teachers has been improving steadily during recent re-cent years." In 1961-62 fewer than 2 of all Utah teachers did not have a bachelor's degree. de-gree. By contrast, nearly 16 of Utah teachers in 1952-53 were teaching without a college col-lege degree. Another indication of this improvement, pointed out in the study, is the rapid decline of teachers teaching with substandard sub-standard qualifications. "Emergency" "Emer-gency" teachers teaching with temporary letters of authorization authoriza-tion totaled 447, or 4.5 of Utah's total teaching force in 1SS1-62. Following World Wall, Wa-ll, in 1945-46, there were 1713 "authorized" (non - certified) teachers in Utah, which number num-ber was equal to 34.6 of all Utah teachers. UTAH FOUNDATION REPORT SHOWS UTAH NOT LOSING SCHOOL TEACHERS Contrary to a commonly held but mistaken impression, impres-sion, Utah is NOT losing a large proportion of its teachers teach-ers to other states. This point was brought out in an analysis prepared by Utah Foundation, the private governmental gov-ernmental research organization, of the annual teacher personnel report of the Utah State Department of Pub- Hi, inbuui.uuii. The Foundation study shows that 732 persons, or approximately approxi-mately 70 of the graduates from Utah teacher-training institutions in-stitutions who taught anywhere last year, accepted teaching positions po-sitions in Utah. This percentage percent-age (70) is identical with the proportion of the teacher -training graduates who were residents of Utah. From this the Foundation concludes "it would appear that the teacher graduates from Utah institutions institu-tions lost' to other states were mainly residents of those states to begin with." Approximately a third of the teacher graduates for one reason rea-son or another do not enter the teaching profession immediately imme-diately after graduation. According Ac-cording to the study, many of these are girls who marry and assume home making duties; while others are students who wish to continue their formal studies. About 6 are individuals indi-viduals who obtain nonteaching positions. Foundation analysts point out that Utah recruits a substantial substan-tial number of teachers from other states each year. Last year, for example, a total of 266 persons who taught the previous year in some other state accepted teaching positions posi-tions in Utah. Surprisingly enough, 25 of these out-of-state teachers came from Cali-- Cali-- fornia a state ranking near the top in teacher salary levels. Utah probably could obtain even more teachers from other states, the study continues, were it not for a school health education requirement which prevents some teachers from securing certification and employment em-ployment in Utah. This provision pro-vision was amended in 1955 by the Utah Legislature so that the State Board of Education now may prescribe the health education requirement needed for certification. The Foundation Founda-tion therefore points out that "if the health education requirement re-quirement is posing a major obstacle in the recruitment of out-of-state teachers it could be modified by action of the State Board of Education." The Foundation report observes ob-serves that data giving the reasons why teachers left their positions were not published by the State School Office this year. Information for the previous pre-vious year, however, indicates that family and personal reasons reas-ons are the major factors in determination of teacher movements move-ments from state to state. Another important source of teachers for Utah schools, according ac-cording to the Foundation report, re-port, is former teachers and former graduates of teacher-training teacher-training institutions who return to teaching. In the 1961-62 school year, 422 teachers who had taught or had graduated at some earlier time accepted teaching posts in Utah. Altogether, Utah recruited 1420 new teachers for its public pub-lic schools last year. No new teacher employed last year had less than three years of college with 96 having four or more years. Still another myth dispelled by the Utah Foundation re- |
