Thursday, January 19, 2006

Maths Teachers should be qualified

Did some work for the registration section of DES
this afternoon, and also read some impassioned comments
by Ted Hurley. He's right. We have reasonable criteria for
registering someone as a secondary maths teacher. However,
there is nothing to stop a principal assigning maths classes
to any teacher, no matter what subjects they are qualified to
teach.
Only 20-25 percent of maths teachers qualify in maths.
It has to stop.

2 comments:

Tony said...

Last month a PQ to the Minister for Education uncovered some facts about this. It turns out that an estimated 60-70% of Maths teachers have studied maths to degree level. This is considerably better than we had believed.

Unknown said...

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