do higher degree qualifications make you a better teacher ?

larmurf

eh wrote:

Oddly enough I can't think of a single Oxbridge person I know who can't communicate and I know an awful lot of them. In fact tradtionally Oxbridge grads have been excellent communicators, even if you don't like what they communicate e.g. Tony Blair through to Tim Berners-Lee.

Yea I remember a teacher who got a job in the school I taught in.
Apparently he was very good at interviews. He stayed from September till
Christmas and then took off without a word to anyone. During that term he worked
about one month out of the four phoning in sick the rest of the time.
He spent most of his time off drinking in a local hotel.
What I saw of him I quite liked, he had some good stories, but was more or less
burned out, all interest in teaching was gone.

takethehighroad

penugent wrote:

This may be an example of what I would call "correct problem, wrong answer".

Standards in teaching do have to be addressed.

The solution isn't as simple as making 2nd class degrees a minimum qualification.

I hope that his thinking on all things isn't so skewed - otherwise, we are in for a rough ride after the next election!!

Too late


http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0117/breaking21.htm

passout

The problem is that eduction needs stability & to be addressed in the long term but politicians only ever address it in the short to medium term - it is constantly used as a political football. It's not just education of course.