'Aust. teachers lacking'
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) I SYDNEY, July 24. Conditions to enable Australian teachers to cope with new ideas in education were “absolutely appalling,” a Melbourne education expert, Mr Thomas Roper, said last night. A recent report from Victoria, he said, showed that only about 50 per cent of primary teachers in the state understood the system of teaching mathematics introduced several years ago. Mr Roper, writer, researcher, and tutor in education at Latrobe University, Melbourne, was being interviewed in the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s radio programme, “Insight.” He said that many teachers in Government schools inl Australia could not be trained to teach in new ways because they were too “dyed in-the-wool.”
He suggested a programme of teacher-education which would focus attention on making the teachers, as well as the pupils, “more flexible.”
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32977, 25 July 1972, Page 8
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