Everyone should hope Education Minister Jason Clare can sort out the repeated failure to improve teaching standards.
rather than any substantive analysis of Australia’s failing school education standards.
Maths teaching has suffered from a similar sort of identity crisis that discounts the value of learning specific figures and equations in favour of generic concepts – compounded by the lack of math teachers with background in the subject. Greater focus on including spells of teaching training in actual class rooms would obviously help this lack of connection. The push for paid internships for university students to work in schools may help but only if managed consistently and well.Clare notes that only 12 per cent of the content of a four-year education degree is related to teaching literacy and 12 per cent to teaching maths.
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