Do teachers need additional training to create a professional organization that works well?
Frankly, in most schools the teachers are the only people holding the place together. Additionally, some members of TEACHER-RUN SCHOOLs are highly experienced in running businesses. They bring their experience into the practice. Some seek, as needed, teachers who have business management abilities and/or experience or non-teachers who can provide services to help with these issues. Generally speaking, teachers in training don’t learn how to manage schools in colleges of education. But of course medical schools don’t do much to train doctors to run their office-practice either. Perhaps colleges of education and other teacher-training organizations will adapt and offer relevant courses as more TEACHER-RUN SCHOOLs come to exist. Until then, TEACHER-RUN SCHOOLs tend to develop their own training programs for teachers; partly for the unusual work of the TEACHER-RUN SCHOOL and partly for the unusual methods of instruction used in many TEACHER-RUN SCHOOLs (e.g., project-based learning).
