NEED FOR TEACHING METHODS WITHIN TRAINING

Should teaching methodology be part of teacher training or is it more important for preservice teachers to graduate with Bachelor and Masters level degrees with practical needs catching up later? That has become what should never have been a question.

We seem to have entered an era wherein the training institute hands preservice teachers a degree. On graduation they enter schools where, with careful coaching and mentoring, they are taught to teach – often by people with far less paper qualifications. That is just not good enough. Training institutions should do the job that for too many years has been totally neglected. Teaching graduates should be able to teach. While support is important, no school should have to carry staff to the extent of these persons becoming hindrances and burdens within their schools.