SCHOOL FOR THOUGHT

Better Teacher Training

Although Ontario doesn’t have the problem of new teachers with barely grade 8 literacy and math skills, they way they do in Arkansas and Mississippi, the province does share the US problem of faculties of education that focus on political correctness and trendy teaching fads. Ontario would do well to consider introducing the successful Teach for America program that recruits top university graduates and provides them with a context of shared values and mission that focuses on student achievement.