Teaching in Finland became a prestigious profession where master’s degrees were required to teach on every level. And only 10 percent of applicants are even chosen to begin teacher training. Once they had jobs, teachers often stayed in the profession until they retired. (Roughly half of American teachers leave in the first five years.)
How to do this? Offer higher pay? Would we attract better teachers in US by simply raising the requirements? Reduce hours and keep pay the same? Seems like something else needs to accompany these changes to make class time ~2x more valuable.
