[etni] State offers 2-week training to relieve shortage of English teachers

State offers 2-week training to relieve shortage of English teachers
Haaretz - August 24, 2008

Education professionals criticized last week a new, expedited 
teacher-training program launched to relieve a crippling shortage of English 
teachers.

Experts fear the Education Ministry course, which will put graduates in 
classrooms after a few weeks of training, will damage the quality of 
education.

"You can't train teachers in two weeks," said Professor Yair Caro, head of 
Oranim Academic College. "This sort of course can only give them basic tools 
in the hope they learn the rest as they go along."

"We are slipping back to how things used to be in the 1960s and the 1950s, 
when there was a serious shortage of teachers," said Professor Shlomo Beck, 
President of Kaye Academic College of Education and chairman of the teaching 
college forum. "Clearly, the teaching profession will suffer from this," he 
added.

(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1014500.html  )


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