The Selection and Professional Development of Trainers for Initial Teacher Training

Summary

Teacher training at school level, and in higher education colleges, is often perceived negatively. This has spurred change in the past decade. At school level there have been efforts to improve the quality of supervision and to achieve more effective liaison with colleges. Colleges have developed new programmes of pre‐service training at a time of low student recruitment, a greying staff and rising staff‐student ratios.