Wednesday, December 8, 2010

High quality teachers...

Another article, this time about a white paper on education in the UK, emphasizing the importance of attracting "high quality" recent college graduates into teaching careers. One thing that concerns me about this trend is the implied (or sometimes implicitly stated) idea that we should be attracting potential teachers to the profession who have a good deal of subject matter expertise. However, there seems to be little emphasis on attracting those who might have potential in terms of developing teaching expertise, or who have already started to acquire it..

http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/39757

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