GTP teachers in England not being taught well enough?
From BBC education:- (with a lot of editing from me)
Teacher training 'not sufficient'
Many of those training "on the job" to be teachers in England are not being taught well enough, Ofsted has said. The organisations managing the Graduate Teacher Programme attracted well-qualified candidates, the second of three reports about the scheme said. But there had been little progress in training quality since the last report.
Discipline
Trainees have the experience to handle discipline well, Ofsted says.The programme is aimed at more mature people, often career-changers, who already have degrees. Miriam Rosen, Ofsted's director of education, said: "The graduate teaching programme helps trainees develop classroom management skills quickly and those who choose this route are often more confident in dealing with discipline problems.
Trainees who taught a subject that was not well matched to the content of their degree often taught weak or poor lessons. One in five lessons taken by trainees that were seen during inspections was unsatisfactory in some way.
Ofsted report
"But more attention needs to be paid to developing trainees' ability to teach their subject to a high standard." In secondary training half of the trainees had shortcomings in subject and professional knowledge and one in 10 was "weak". "Secondary trainees who taught a subject that was not well matched to the content of their degree often taught weak or poor lessons because their understanding of the subject had not been developed sufficiently during the training programme," the report said.
'Best ever'
Unlike trainees following other routes into the profession, few of those on the Graduate Teacher Programme read recent classroom research or educational publications, Ofsted said.
"This hampered their ability to evaluate their teaching and pupils' learning." And they "often demonstrated a lack of understanding of some of the key concepts in the subjects they taught and they failed to identify pupils' errors and misconceptions".
"As Ofsted have said we have the 'best ever' generation of newly qualified teachers," a spokesman said. Ninety per cent of those coming into teaching on employment-based routes did gain Qualified Teacher Status, and they made up one in six new teachers. "The knowledge and expertise that they have developed in their previous career is extremely valuable, especially those with a mathematics, science and modern languages background".
An interesting article, with quite a few pointers for me on how to get the best out of my training.
read the full article here .
Teacher training 'not sufficient'
Many of those training "on the job" to be teachers in England are not being taught well enough, Ofsted has said. The organisations managing the Graduate Teacher Programme attracted well-qualified candidates, the second of three reports about the scheme said. But there had been little progress in training quality since the last report.
Discipline
Trainees have the experience to handle discipline well, Ofsted says.The programme is aimed at more mature people, often career-changers, who already have degrees. Miriam Rosen, Ofsted's director of education, said: "The graduate teaching programme helps trainees develop classroom management skills quickly and those who choose this route are often more confident in dealing with discipline problems.
Trainees who taught a subject that was not well matched to the content of their degree often taught weak or poor lessons. One in five lessons taken by trainees that were seen during inspections was unsatisfactory in some way.
Ofsted report
"But more attention needs to be paid to developing trainees' ability to teach their subject to a high standard." In secondary training half of the trainees had shortcomings in subject and professional knowledge and one in 10 was "weak". "Secondary trainees who taught a subject that was not well matched to the content of their degree often taught weak or poor lessons because their understanding of the subject had not been developed sufficiently during the training programme," the report said.
'Best ever'
Unlike trainees following other routes into the profession, few of those on the Graduate Teacher Programme read recent classroom research or educational publications, Ofsted said.
"This hampered their ability to evaluate their teaching and pupils' learning." And they "often demonstrated a lack of understanding of some of the key concepts in the subjects they taught and they failed to identify pupils' errors and misconceptions".
"As Ofsted have said we have the 'best ever' generation of newly qualified teachers," a spokesman said. Ninety per cent of those coming into teaching on employment-based routes did gain Qualified Teacher Status, and they made up one in six new teachers. "The knowledge and expertise that they have developed in their previous career is extremely valuable, especially those with a mathematics, science and modern languages background".
An interesting article, with quite a few pointers for me on how to get the best out of my training.
read the full article here .
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