Govt should resists calls to 'scrap' student teacher literacy and numeracy tests
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2020
- Calls for the federal government to scrap its compulsory literacy and numerous test for student teachers is "ridiculous" and should be ignored, according to the Centre of Independent Studies Education Research fellow Blaise Joseph.
Since 2015, student teachers have had to pass a Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education before being allowed to graduate.
A group of students have petitioned Education Minister Dan Tehan, asking for the test to be scrapped in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mr Joseph told Sky News students will have plenty of time to complete the online module before they graduate.
"One of the great achievements of the Abbott government in 2015 was to bring in this new test to ensure no teacher can graduate the teaching program if they don't have basic literary and numeracy skills," he said.
"Universities should be ensuring any prospective has those essential skills before their even enter the degree."
"This test is necessary to stop those teachers from going through the gaps and coming out and teaching students when they have no idea themselves ... that just creates a cycle of a lack of basic skills."
Perhaps if we teach how to think instead of what to think, our next generation might stand a chance. Instead, the teachers who can’t speak and add up, want the test gone! Smash my head against a brick wall, how stupid is this!
Teachers can speak and spell.
But I like you argument on teaching kids how to think. A much better approach to what we currently have.
Recently listened to a podcast with Brian Greene and he said something similar, we should stop teaching kids to just remember enough to pass a test. That's not an education at all.
Ronald Grayson, what was the podcast name, would love to listen to it. Wasn’t Jo Rogan by any chance?????
@@browndog9637 It was Joe Rogan. His most recent one with Greene, I think it was only a month or so ago.
Brian Greene is also a long time teacher so he has quite a bit of experience to back up his thoughts on how to improve education.
Ronald Grayson, thanks mate, will search it up. Cheers and have a great evening.
On any productivity scale our education system should be dismantled as an extremely expensive bad joke.
Our literacy and numeracy skills haven't been declining because of teachers. They've been declining because our curriculum is rubbish and provides little motivation for students to learn.
It's not difficult to comprehend this situation. Most learning institutions are all about making money first and education achievement second.
I love how a news site can't even use a modal verb properly in the headline "Govt should resists calls to 'scrap' student teacher literacy and numeracy tests" I mean, really? Should resists? I just can't 'resists' having a stab at Sky News because it's absolute trash reporting.
FTP
FTG
Who can u trust ?
Teachers who can't use the below correctly need literacy help:
... hair, hear, here
... its, it's
... their, there, they're
... to, too, two
... than, then
... were, we're, where
... your, you're
... could've, should've (not "of")
... one two three / first, second,
... (not an exhaustive list at all)
Low intelligence is what the the government strove for in the early 80's when they changed the curriculum on how students would be taught. No more spelling tests. No more phonics. No more multiplication tables etc etc. Everyone gets a prize!
This is the reward.
Why are you so confused Peta?
How can this even be a consideration? A person who cannot compute and comprehend cannot teach. If they lack the capacity for abstract thought and an inability to convey information they have no place in a classroom.