Hi Everyone, I came across this news item (December, 2008) in the Independent Online, from South Africa)
Teachers should be trained for free in order to try to close SA's current 20 000-plus teacher shortfall, the SA Council of Educators said on Thursday. "Considering the low levels of intake at teacher-training facilities and the high costs of training... the Council calls for free teacher training for all prospective teachers, with immediate effect," said SACE CEO Rej Brijraj on Thursday. Link: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=105&art_id=nw20081204165824720C518870 *** I have a few comments / questions: * What role could WikiEducator in addressing this skills shortage in general; and in particular with respect to teacher training? * Do we have teacher training materials available, or how can we facilitate collaborative development of more? * I recall that our New Zealand colleagues are interested in teacher education, as is India's NCERT - http://www.ncert.nic.in/welcome.asp ~ who specifically is interested in teacher training? * Please do share your ideas, thoughts and suggestions... - Randy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
