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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
MAggy I don't know how long you have been a teacher (or indeed how long it took you to qualify) but I am assuming the answer to both questions would be years. I would be well peeved off if I were you, this latest move demeans the work teachers have previously put in to qualify, and I agree, education standards will only drop as a result.
I think you need to be a special kind of person to teach, but lately I see a lot of totally unsuitable people go into teaching. This will only increase these numbers.
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It also demeans the actual knowledge that was once deemed necessary to understand the students one is teaching..children are not components in some assembly line.They are future generations who deserve the best not what TPTB think they can get away with.
I know there are shortages of maths and science teachers but this is not the way to remedy the matter...It might be better to remove subjects like Media Studies and Personal Development and Drama from the timetable and degree syllabus and then maybe more youngsters can be persuaded to take up the subjects the country really needs.
The other day I looked through the Times education supplement and found there was one page for media studies,2 for drama vacancies but 23 pages for maths teachers...I lost count of the science vacancies..
However unless you have some understanding of HOW and WHY a child learns then it matters not how good an understanding you have of a subject..and this is not something you learn in a year let alone 6 months. Psychology and physiology are an important component in understanding how children learn.
Maybe a few sessions of Lord Winston's tv programmes on how children develop/learn may help but aren't really a substitute.