Student teacher training courses ‘dysfunctional’ [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 23 July 2010
RESEARCHERS have backed calls for major reforms of training for student teachers who spend just 17 weeks in classrooms before beginning their careers.
Dr Andy Burke of the Educational Research Centre at St Patrick’s College in Dublin claims in an academic journal article that most teacher preparation programmes are dysfunctional in some respects. He focuses on the Bachelor of Education (BEd) degrees at the two larger teacher training colleges, St Patrick’s College and Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, from which most of the annual 1,000 BEd students graduate.
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