I think they should make them a fully self-regulated profession. Include in the act that gives them self-regulation direction to have methods to ensure competency. In engineering we have Professional development hour numbers to meet. The same appears to happen in teaching.
If they would do one thing to benefit learning rather then take away certification they need to make the process to remove underperforming teachers easier. In the EPC world you have recessions where the weak are weeded out. In teaching demand is relatively static so you never clense your work force. If principals had more power to remove underperforming teachers I think it would be a much better solution.
Treat them like everyother profession, those that perfrom stay, those that underperform go if there is a viable replacement. The best people to asess this are the people directly supervising them. Underperforming doesn't mean incompetent it just means their are better out there. This whole review process would just ensure not incompetent teachers keep there jobs. We need a competitive system where the best teachers are rewarded and the poorer teachers are replaced with new grads and relagated to substitute work.
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