Self‐Help in Teacher Training

Abstract

IT IS NOW accepted that ability to learn a subject does not automatically mean ability to teach it. Teaching contains enough of a skill element to require special training if it is to be carried out with maximum effect. In the secondary and primary spheres of our educational system the overwhelming majority of teachers have successfully completed some course of teacher training before taking up their first post. This is not the case in technical education and this situation has given rise to justifiable concern for the difficulties of the non‐teacher‐trained staff in our technical colleges.