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Student teachers in class after just five weeks of training

Why bother with five weeks? Just take people off the streets. – offthegrid Could these prospective teachers really be taught to be sufficiently literate and numerate in such a short time? – Turgidtime Teaching isn’t just about content. If it was, we’d employ subject technicians rather than highly trained teachers. Understanding how children learn, how to motivate them and behaviour management can’t happen in a few weeks. – Davefo The proposal is to bring in teachers who have received training but not yet finished (or perhaps even yet undergone) the second part of their placements, etc. I would think that with care this could work. – corrigenda The problem with maths and science is really serious because the quality of teaching has been dire for a while so the graduates in those subjects make truly awful teachers. You would have to assume the universities producing these teachers can’t be great either. – another blabbering idiot