Designing a Framework for Training Teachers for Children by Society as a Whole

Abstract

With recent changes in society, demands on schools and teachers have become more and more diverse and complex. As a result, schools have been undertaking to do what home and the local community should bear. A lot of teachers seem to have hard time following this social change and the new demand of our society. It is of vital importance that we review the current state of teacher training to develop teachers with practical teaching abilities and professional competence for the sake of educating the children of the future. What we need is not to carry out educational reform based on a short-sighted view that teacher quality has been declined. Instead, we need to work together with the educational community as a whole by sharing the problems we face. Otherwise, there is no future in education. Under these circumstances, the present report discusses the ideal state of teacher training based on the assumption that boards of education should take an initiative role in connecting the whole of society.