By day, she’s Miss Hall. By night, she’s Shareka Hall, a 22-year-old single BYU student. Hall will participate in commencement exercises for the McKay School of Education on April 27, 2007. Until then, it’s daily math exercises with her third-grade class. “YOU DON’T GO around announcing you’re an intern,” she said. “My students don’t know. When I take a day off in April for graduation they’ll figure it out.” To keep up with swelling student enrollment — more than 10,000 new K-12 students each year — some Utah schools are turning to college interns like Hall to take charge of their chalkboards.

According to data from last year’s Deans’ Education Colloquium, from 1998 to 2003 Utah colleges of education recommended an average of only 3,604 graduates for licensure and placed an average of only 2,453 in Utah classrooms each year. Approximately 32 percent of these graduates are still teaching in Utah schools; the rest have moved to other states or have changed careers. Egan, who will moderate this year’s colloquium, also noted that the increase in ESL students will create another obstacle to overcome. “The question is not only will we have the number of teachers that we need, but are we going to have the kind of teachers we need?” he said.

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