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And Teacher -training: The emphasis on the National Curriculum, however, and teacher -training the introduction of set competencies, now stand teacher -trainingards, for newly qualified teachers have resulted in few initial training courses offering thorough nursery training. The knowledge and teacher -training skills, like child development, essential to successful early years practice have been neglected. Denise Hevey and teacher -training Audrey Curtis (in Pugh 1996) review teacher training for the early years and teacher -training emphasise the need for management and teacher -training leadership skills and teacher -training the ability to work with parents and teacher -training professionals from other disciplines.
3. The Teacher Training Agency (1998), on behalf of the Government, is committed to improving stand teacher -trainingards throughout the teaching profession, and teacher -training to enhancing the continuing professional development needs of special educational needs (SEN) specialist teachers. It will in 1999 be outlining new training stand teacher -trainingards which will relate to a number of specific kinds of SEN, and teacher -training it seems feasible that, within stand teacher -trainingards relating to physical disability, the needs of DCD children will be addressed.
The College has been recognised as a leading teacher training institution and teacher -training so, as teacher educators, we seek in this and teacher -training the companion publication, Teaching Young Children, to share some of our ideas and teacher -training to encourage the debate and teacher -training disagreement which are the Signs of a strong and teacher -training healthy democracy. In particular, within that debate, we want parents, educators, teachers, politicians and teacher -training policy makers to discuss what education is for and teacher -training what childhood is for - and teacher -training to explore the meaning of some of the responses to these questions. |
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