As anyone connected with teacher training in Australia knows, the current situation is substandard and flawed and, as noted in the NSW Vinson Report, many beginner teachers lack the skills and expertise to be effective teachers.For far too long the work of teacher-training institutions has gone unchecked and, as the Australian Council for Educational Research argued in a submission on teacher quality, there is cause for concern. It said:”To our knowledge, no teacher education program or institut…
