Universities that produce teachers who can’t teach reading or manage classrooms must be penalised, says a new report.
Universities that allow student teachers to graduate without basic skills in classroom management, how to teach literacy and numeracy or understanding the needs of Indigenous and disadvantaged kids will be financially penalised under a“Far too many graduates are leaving university unprepared to teach children how to read,” the report into thePaid internships help attract the best beginner teachers, says Toni Riordan, principal of St Aidan’s Anglican Girls College in Brisbane.
The recommendation is that an independent expert body would advise the government on the allocation of subsidised places, rewarding those education departments that score highly and punishing those that do not. Another key recommendation of the QITER report is to dramatically increase access to the in-class experience student teachers get while still studying. Though there were, none were at a scale that could have any impact on incoming cohorts of new teachers, he said.
“There is a role for governments and employers to work together to make these little schemes much larger. And we need to do this by not removing the intellectual component of what they learn.”Toni Riordan, principal of St Aidan’s Anglican Girls College in Brisbane, introduced a highly successful program with St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School and Queensland University of Technology five years ago.
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