Teacher Training and Education
The question about how teacher should be trained and what skills they should possess is a controversial issue in many countries. The same applies to the question whether one can learn to teach at all or wether it is no longer an art form. We strongly believe that we can learn how to teach.
There are probably a hundred if not thousands of different teacher training courses for different areas. A simple search on google scholars shows more than four million hits. The micro teaching method is a well tested method for education and training of teaching behaviors. For teaching itself, it is best top use a mix of different methods whose effectiveness in term of learning success has been tested.
The question about how teacher should be trained and what skills they should possess is a controversial issue in many countries. The same applies to the question whether one can learn to teach at all or wether it is no longer an art form. We strongly believe that we can learn how to teach.
There are probably a hundred if not thousands of different teacher training courses for different areas. A simple search on google scholars shows more than four million hits. The micro teaching method is a well tested method for education and training of teaching behaviors. For teaching itself, it is best top use a mix of different methods whose effectiveness in term of learning success has been tested.