Hello All! Happy New Year!
With this great year coming I thought it was time to start asking some new questions.
1) Should new design teachers be put through some sort of short induction course to familiarise them with some important aspects of pedagogy which I have discussed earlier? If so how would this be regulated? In Australia teachers who work in the private sector need to go through a course call TAA Certificate IV. In my opinion, it is completely useless for the design teacher or any post-secondary teacher. It’s basically a ‘paper work’ course. You learn how to document everything but not how to teach.
2) Who would fund this? Should design organisations become more involved?
3) I mentioned before in a previous post concerning developing some sort of flexible pedagogical success factors for private and public institutions:
a) How much of an investment are institutions willing to make in the maintaining and developing of good teaching and learning environments? Any ideas?
Well more on this later.