Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
There are 600 districts in India. Every district in India has a teacher-training institute.
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal-federal cufflink.
So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
