So, I'm a Conductor... I graduated from NICE in England as a Conductor, and am working in the USA. The US calls conductors, Conductive Education Teachers (CET's), regardless of where you trained - (perhaps due to the fact that they have little recognition for conductors trained outside of Hungary or America). Now as far as i was aware the Peto institute had changed there programme so that they are now graduating as 'just' conductors and not 'teachers', but conversations at the ACENA conference this week implied that they had reversed this decision and are once again graduating 'teachers'... anyone know anymore about this?
Also at the conference, a center actively seeking a new conductor was introduced to a conductor from England looking for a job - yet they said they could not even consider hiring them as they are not a teacher. Now this center is looking for somebody to work within the public schools system so i am sure that they have some kind of documentation which states they must hire a conductor-teacher, but seriously, conductor looking for job, center looking for conductor, what a stipulation!
Now i also know that in England if you wanted to teach in a school you could do a pgce, yet some conductors actively teach without doing this - so how does this work? And if you went to the USA the English PGCE would not translate in the US anyway, and you would end up doing their own examinations to become a teacher anyway...
So anyway - who am i? Can i call myself a conductor-teacher or am i just a conductor? Does my degree seriously have less worth over here because i'm not a teacher - a lot of questions - but hoping somebody may be able to shed a little light!