Teaching Practice

They call them teaching rounds. The training colleges do not supervise teaching practice here. They pay the school to do so! We had two student teachers recently for two weeks. The school got $450, we kept 20% and the teachers got the remaining 80%. The co-coordinator (post holder if you like) got $23.40 and the teachers $168.30 each. Two lecturers visited us but only to talk to the teachers, not to observe lessons. At the end the teachers fill in a detailed form which is not based on one lesson but on the whole two weeks. Even though you could have a situation where they know the student teacher or where the student teacher is a past pupil, the teachers are very conscientious and professional about their reports. They have to give a copy to the student also and explain what they have written. But because this is the system that they went through themselves, they accept that they must be objective and have no problem doing so.