This blog article is an interesting look at a proposal to make educational training similar to the training progression of doctors. A former teacher discusses how doctors go through a residency program that provides them with mentorship from more experience doctors prior to their certification as professionals. What is interesting is that there are programs that do exist that at least partially model the doctor residency program, and they seem to be paying dividends. "Though they don't last anywhere near as long as medical school, such programs combine graduate-level coursework with extended classroom apprenticeships (or clinical practice) in which teacher-candidates work alongside master teachers. According to our colleague Stephen Sawchuk's ever-on-the-ball coverage, a recent study out of Tennessee found that teachers who graduated from the Memphis Teacher Residency were more effective, in terms of test-score gains, than the average veteran teacher in the state."
Rebora, Anthony. What Ed. Schools Can Learn From Med. Schools. (2013, July). Education Week Teacher. Retrieved from: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2013/07/what_ed_schools_can_learn_from_med_schools.html
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