An education expert has suggested that universities that do not have high-quality teaching degrees should face sanctions.
Adam Voight, founder and CEO of Real Schools, an innovative mentoring and coaching program designed for school leaders, said there needs to be a fundamental shift at the university level on how students learn and how they are taught rather than the curriculum.
Speaking to Melbourne’s Radio 3AW on Thursday, he said it is common to hear graduate teachers complaining about how much they do not learn from their teaching degrees.
“It’s something that’s been happening for a long time now; graduate teachers arrive in schools and tell us they learned a lot more about teaching in their first term of teaching than they did in their three or four years of university,” he said….