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04-09-2014, 05:10 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Mrs Marietta Koh presented valid arguments for having graduate teachers in secondary schools and junior colleges, with non-graduate teachers mainly in primary schools (“Career boost for non-graduate teachers: Impact may be limited”; last Friday).
In September 2008, however, the Education Ministry announced its plan to recruit only graduates to fill open teaching positions in primary and secondary schools by 2015 (“Ministry aims for all-graduate teaching pool”; Sept 26, 2008).
In support of the move, then Education Minister Ng Eng Hen said that “with the enhancements we want to bring about at the primary level, we will require teachers to also have a stronger mastery of content and pedagogy”.
He cited Finland, whose teachers are required to have master’s degrees either in education or in one or two teaching subjects, alongside other countries with an all-graduate teaching force.
He also encouraged non-graduate teachers to go for full- or part-time degree studies to upgrade themselves.
Does this mean non-graduate teachers will eventually be phased out even in primary schools, unless the ministry has reversed its policy?
Maria Loh Mun Foong (Ms)
* Letter first appeared in ST Forum, 3 Sep.
http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/09/04...uate-teachers/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/09/04/is-moe-phasing-out-non-graduate-teachers/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?189385-Is-MOE-phasing-out-non-graduate-teachers&goto=newpost).
Mrs Marietta Koh presented valid arguments for having graduate teachers in secondary schools and junior colleges, with non-graduate teachers mainly in primary schools (“Career boost for non-graduate teachers: Impact may be limited”; last Friday).
In September 2008, however, the Education Ministry announced its plan to recruit only graduates to fill open teaching positions in primary and secondary schools by 2015 (“Ministry aims for all-graduate teaching pool”; Sept 26, 2008).
In support of the move, then Education Minister Ng Eng Hen said that “with the enhancements we want to bring about at the primary level, we will require teachers to also have a stronger mastery of content and pedagogy”.
He cited Finland, whose teachers are required to have master’s degrees either in education or in one or two teaching subjects, alongside other countries with an all-graduate teaching force.
He also encouraged non-graduate teachers to go for full- or part-time degree studies to upgrade themselves.
Does this mean non-graduate teachers will eventually be phased out even in primary schools, unless the ministry has reversed its policy?
Maria Loh Mun Foong (Ms)
* Letter first appeared in ST Forum, 3 Sep.
http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/09/04...uate-teachers/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/09/04/is-moe-phasing-out-non-graduate-teachers/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?189385-Is-MOE-phasing-out-non-graduate-teachers&goto=newpost).