>
>Folks
>It's impossible for teachers/schools to meet the 'demands' of so many
>intermediaries. What a good teacher needs is ITT of good quality and
>the 'management'(not in the traditional authoritarian sense but in
>the modern sense of knowledge management) of a good head(who has
>conscientiously taken over his/her CPD into his/her own hands) of
>department/faculty/school.
>There has been a great deal of report(as a supply teacher I have seen
>it with my very own eyes) to say that some trainees are 'mentored' on
>classroom survival techniques much more than on the principles
>underpinning good teaching/learning. I have met school mentors who
>refuse to look at the fresh ideas trainees bring from HE tutors. I
>have been shocked to find that some of the mentors who are also heads
>of departments aren't even aware of the existence of professional
>teaching bodies(!!!!) With relegation of ITT to schools there will be
>real need for nemerous 'educational improvement initiatives'. Then
>even if the teachers cope up with the intermediaries the government
>will not.
>
>We are throwing education/children into a stream at one end and
>trying to rescue them at another.
>
>This is driving good teachers out of teaching profession.
>
>Beliving in 'prevention is better than cure'
>Puni Selvaratnam
>
>


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Dr. Keith S. Taber
http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/staff/taber.html
University Lecturer in Education
University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
Homerton College site
Hills Road
Cambridge CB2 2PH



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