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In my opinion, the standard to enter teacher training should be incredibly high, in fact, it should only be 'the cream of the crop', admitting only those who can demonstrate outstanding academic literacy/numeracy and high ability communication skills before they can even enrol in the course.
Teaching is such an important profession and encompasses a huge responsibility for students and their future.
Successive Governments have stood by and allowed this travesty to occur. They need to clearly understand that lip service will not repair the damage, higher standards all round will, eventually.
I still see a few new graduates who cannot spell and write in such a way as to demonstrate comprehension in their own language, yet they speak well and are very intelligent and I cannot even begin to imagine how they get through, but somehow, they do.
My children have often complained that they don't understand their teachers, specifically those born overseas. It can really impact their learning. I do think this needs to be addressed.
@vicr3000 wrote:
@donnashuggy wrote:
My children have often complained that they don't understand their teachers, specifically those born overseas. It can really impact their learning. I do think this needs to be addressed.The same applies to a number of professions !
Yes it can but if you are doing your HSC and advanced maths and english and you cannot understand your teacher it makes learning very difficult, in theory these teachers know the subject but the teaching side of things can be very poor if the children do not understand what you are saying, sometimes it is even worth changing/dropping subjects to get a better chance at this important time.
My daughter is considering the same, she is also doing two science subjects so the pressure is on.
Probably cannot generalize too much however yes that rings true.
