Teacher training
Sir, — May I, on behalf of the Educational Standards Association, congratulate the secondary division of the Teachers’ College on at last discovering that its job is to train teachers. We live in hope that the primary division will soon do likewise. Classroom teacher cynicism about their armchair theorists is well known. As with our departmental “friends” up in Wellington, the main impression outsiders get is that too much time is spent dreaming up grandiose titles for one another and expounding theories of dubious practicality. It is, therefore, time that the Teachers’ College authorities stopped trying to emulate the university system and confined themselves to preparing both effective programmes and fully equipped students. — Yours, etc., JOHN LEVERSEDGE, Regional Co-ordinator, Educational Standards Association. March 23, 1979.
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