How a paid teacher apprenticeship model is helping Western Slope classrooms reduce shortages

How a paid teacher apprenticeship model is helping Western Slope classrooms reduce shortages

Following state efforts directed at getting more licensed teachers in Colorado classrooms, the state has officially graduated its first student from a new paid teacher apprenticeship model — and she’s already helping to fill critical classroom needs on the Western Slope. Justyne Terry, a Colorado Mountain College student in Rifle, became the first in the state to complete Colorado’s Teacher Degree Apprenticeship Program. She says the program mad…