The fast track for non-legally qualified teachers who want to perfect their training is taking shape, as TÉLUQ University will receive a first cohort of candidates as of the fall.
TÉLUQ specifies that it will offer “100% remotely” a 30-credit Specialized Graduate Diploma, intended for practicing preschool and elementary level teaching staff, who hold a bachelor’s degree, but who are not currently legally qualified to teach.
The Minister of Education, Bernard Drainville, was delighted, he who had announced in January that he wanted to develop a fast track leading to the teaching certificate.
Quebec has already resorted to hiring non-legally qualified teachers because of the teacher shortage.
The teachers’ unions are therefore open to this new training, while bringing downsides.
In an interview, the president of the Federation of Teachers’ Unions (FSE), Josée Scalabrini, affirms that she cannot be against the fact that we find a faster way to make teachers available and trained, but that should not come at the expense of pedagogical training, she insists.
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