The lesson seems to be that teacher training needs to be hard to get into, not easy.Teaching the teachersHaving got good people, there is a temptation to shove them into classrooms and let them get on with it.
"At a time when we have an increasing number of vocational teachers coming forward, teacher training needs to focus more on practical teaching skills and experiment with different ways of assessment.
Playbook, the alternative that Panorama is releasing today, operates on the premise that teacher training needs to be highly personalized, and there's nobody better to instruct teachers than their peers.
CFL teacher training needs to prepare the type of teachers who can deal educationally with transnational and local diversity (Luke 2004), with a range of adopted and adapted pedagogies to use.
Playbook, the alternative that Panorama is releasing today, operates on the premise that teacher training needs to be highly personalized, and there's nobody better to instruct teachers than their peers.
They do not analyse, however, teachers' training needs.
On the other hand, schools must proceed to a clear self-assessment of their educational offer, and also to assess the extent on meeting new challenges and identifying the actual training needs.However, for designing effective training programs, it must accurately be assessed the real in-service teachers' training needs.
Innovative in-service teacher training systems need to be explored in order to meet teachers' diverse needs for learning and development.
To maintain high-quality teacher training we need a better mix of core university and school direct places, and a more effective way of allocating funding for training.
It is claimed that at least 15-20% of teacher training places need to be taken up by black and ethnic minority trainees in the next two decades if the profession is to represent British society.
