Enhancing Teacher Education: Innovations and Challenges in Professional Development and Training
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2024 | Viewed by 1032
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Initial Teacher Training marks the start of entry into the profession. Since the 1800s, teacher training has been delivered, researched and supported by the university sector, culminating in the 1960s with the establishment of degree and postgraduate education programmes, the majority of which included Qualified Teachers Status. In the 1990s and 2000s, School-Centred Initial Teacher Training programmes and Teach First were developed in the context of a teacher recruitment and retention crisis. Thirty years on, I write at a time of a deeper crisis in the profession—a significant reduction in teacher recruitment of up to 50% in England, with at least one in three teachers leaving the profession in England. The response to this crisis has been the marketisation of initial teacher training, leading to the creation of the National Institute of Teaching and the subsequent closure of 61 of 240 university-supported or university-delivered teacher training courses in England. Decisions made by central government in England have reduced the number of teacher training opportunities. The practical implications of these policies are dire, with children starting their primary education in classes over the recommended number of 30 students and secondary schools unable to deliver lessons with qualified, graduate teachers in STEM and arts subjects.
Prof. Dr. Sonia Blandford
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- teacher recruitment and retention
