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Mar. 10th, 2009 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Stupid idea # 378943245 from this bloody government is to cut the time it takes to train teachers from a year to six months. That's one way to cut the unemployment figures. And how about training docrors, dentists and pilots in six months? That'd help too!
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Date: 2009-03-10 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-10 10:53 pm (UTC)I'm doing early childhood teaching now and I decided to go with a four year undergrad course. I'll get some exemptions so I won't be full time for all of those four years, but I felt that I needed that much time to get my head around it all!
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Date: 2009-03-11 07:07 pm (UTC)For some a year might be long enough, but for others, not, although to be honest, I really think that to an extent, teaching is one of those things you can do, or you can't. (My HoD when I trained was twenty-seven, and whatever that undefinable something is, she had "it". She could walk into a class of crappy year nines, and they'd (almost) all shut-up.)
I'm not trying to be big-headed, but I think a year training ON THE JOB was probably enough for me, but then I'm older, I've been around a bit, and I'm fully aware that teaching is a job in which you're always learning - and that becoming a good teacher isn't something that happens overnight.
OTOH, training for five years as they do in Finland, does seem a bit excessive, although it's an indicator of the standing of the profession, unlike in the UK, where, it seems, the slogan now is "Come and be a teacher. It's so easy, anyone can do it!"
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Date: 2009-03-12 01:02 am (UTC)but then I'm older, I've been around a bit, and I'm fully aware that teaching is a job in which you're always learning - and that becoming a good teacher isn't something that happens overnight.
I agree, I think being older makes a huge difference. There's no way I could have been a teacher straight out of school, I lacked the confidence.
I'm sorry your day has been so bad :-( You've had such a rough time of it, it makes me really mad when I think about how heavily they were recruiting people to teacher training.
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Date: 2009-03-11 07:47 pm (UTC)Most people don't realize that teaching is a skill set. Not everyone can do it.