Training teachers and teacher librarians

A US article of interest follows. The focus of this article reminded a few of us attending the Hobart hearing of the Inquiry last week and the conversations with members about the beginning teachers being in survival mode for the first year or two of teaching. Do you agree?

https://webmail.hutchins.tas.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=daaed996cb914290ac2f76aa458ec871&URL=http%3a%2f%2feducation.change.org%2fblog%2fview%2fwhat_should_we_teach_the_teachers
“A constant complaint from graduates of teacher education programs (myself included) is that they do not prepare teachers for the real world of teaching. My own teacher education program taught me the theories of adolescent development, curriculum design, and of schooling in general, but did not tell me what to do in front of a group of 25 screaming 9th graders when I wanted to get their attention. Now I am on the other side, as a teacher educator, and I struggle with the best ways to prepare future teachers.

Teacher education programs generally have three components: Foundations courses (courses in the history, philosophy and/or psychology of education), Methods courses (how to write curriculum), and a Practicum, or what is commonly called student teaching (usually a semester or a year of teaching under a mentor teacher). Teacher candidates take between one and two years to complete the course of study for which they are awarded a master's degree. Then they enter a classroom.” ....and more in the article.

This would be similar in Australia. The thought of adding into a course the digital literacy component for teachers to skill them to take over this aspect of the role of the TL is beyond comprehension!!!