Preparation for Teaching

Abstract

As is common practice in all Colleges of Education, our students have to spend thirteen weeks in schools during their three year course, engaged either in observation or on actual teaching practice. We have our students with us in the department for the first two terms before they spend their first month in schools. They have a further nine week practice in term eight - this being the time when we expect them to show, in their teaching, that they have not only a sound philosophy of their own, but are able to interpret this and work with pupils producing thought provoking, design based problems in a variety of materials.