New six month teacher training course

If you watched, read, or listened to the news at all today, you will have heard of this...


What do people think of this? I don't see how it's supposed to work, personally. The most intensive course we have already requires near-constant work for 11 months, so I don't see how people are going to achieve the same standards in half the time.

It's obviously geared toward people who have been made redundant from their jobs in finance and now fancy giving teaching a go. Why does anyone suppose that people who failed at their commercial careers are going to learn how to teach quicker than everyone else?

well, if they already have a maths/history/arts degree wouldnt it be easier?

as the people on radio 4 were saying, norway has a far superior education system which could well be the result of their 4 year training course.

Even for people who already have degrees?

i think that there is a massive distinction between someone knowing how to learn and knowing how to help someone else learn. i just don't think 6 months is anywhere near adequate time

i think that there is a massive distinction between someone knowing how to learn and knowing how to help someone else learn. i just don't think 6 months is anywhere near adequate time

That wasn't the question. In Norway, do people who already have a degree have to do an additional four years of teacher training?

I agree, although there are some lecturers at my uni, and teachers from school that I can remember, who may have achieved a good degree but are just totally hopeless at engaging their students to learn.

exactly. and not only is it a matter of engaging with a class but also having control. i really just do not think 6 months is enough time to learn AND practise... is it fair to jeopordise another person's future for the sake of maintaining someone else's present?

exactly. and not only is it a matter of engaging with a class but also having control. i really just do not think 6 months is enough time to learn AND practise... is it fair to jeopordise another person's future for the sake of maintaining someone else's present?

All trainee teachers have degrees (unless they're doing a 4 year undergraduate teaching degree obviously) and those courses are common ones, so why would it?

I heard this earlier but not in great detail. Im sure its not a matter of gaining a teaching qualification in 6 months and bam your out in the classroom. My mum has a degree in criminology and also in law and is now a teacher and her training (PGCE i believe the qualification is) was 9 months. Most of that was in school and even after that she wasnt just pushed into a class and expected to be a teacher with great experience. There are all sorts of ways for them to 'practice' like being supervised etc.
Im sure theres more to it than we think seeing as it just came about today in the news (I only heard about it today anyway!)