Morning deans, think the scathing assessment of initial teacher education courses by Mark Scott and colleagues was as bad as things? Fraid not

“If you ask most teachers, they’ll tell you that when they first became a teacher, they didn’t feel prepared for the classroom. That the prac they got when they were at uni wasn’t up to scratch,” Education Minister Jason Clare told Patricia Karvelas on RN yesterday.

“That what they learnt at university didn’t give them all the skills they needed to teach students to read or to write or to manage a difficult and disruptive classroom,” he added.

Mr Clare has made such points about ITE before (for example, CMM March 30) but he is clearly keen to keep making them.

Mark Scott (Uni Sydney)  and colleagues ideas for initial teacher education (CMM March 23 2023) are on the agenda for July’s meeting of ministers.

They include public performance measures of ITE courses, “to increase accountability and inform student choice,” (CMM March 23 2023)