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Sancho

(9,110 posts)
5. Experience and history...
Sun Oct 29, 2023, 05:25 PM
Oct 2023

We have decades of experience in teacher training. Beyond a minimum of content knowledge, teachers today need more pedagogy skills than ever before (and often have to be multilingual) to be effective. Yes, teacher values and beliefs can be predictive of long term teacher success.

Alternative routes usually result in teachers who leave the profession unless they get solid support. Most alternate routes spend more money on failed teachers than simply paying tuition for teacher training in approved programs.

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