Teacher Preparation | Impact of Globalization | Professionalism in Teaching

What is teacher preparation? Discuss the impact of globalization on teacher preparation in Pakistan.

Course:: Professionalism in Teaching

Course code 8612

Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment 

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Teacher Preparation

The concerns identified in the previous two sections, increasing globalization and diversity and a focus on standards and accountability for teacher education come at a time when many Western nations are facing a teacher shortage of unprecedented proportions. There are various predictions in the US that national demands will reach 2 million teachers in the next few years due to the factors mentioned above (Darling-Hammond et al., 1999; Oakes, et al., 2002). So, at a time when there are higher and higher demands for the graduates of teacher education institutions, the need for putting bodies in front of classrooms has led to a lowering of entry standards for people who enter through other means.

However, it is necessary to make sure that such teachers have the skills required for the job, regardless of how they came into the profession. It is not just finding any important teacher, but finding the right teacher, with the right skills for the right situation. So, the issue of recruiting and training new teachers is much more complex than it was a decade ago.

Impact of Globalization

Increasing globalization has impacted teacher education in terms of teachers now having to understand and cater to a diverse population. In certain parts of the world, there are now classrooms where a multitude of languages are spoken and where different religious and cultural understandings must be considered when teaching.

This has brought about the need for a substantial shift in teacher attitudes about the task and substantial change in terms of the teacher education program offered by universities. This is not seen as being positive by all commentators. The impact of the global economy on education can make life difficult for teachers and may even make it impossible for teachers to provide the type of education they were trained for:

The role and function of education are undergoing dramatic changes in response to these economic imperatives. The notion of a broad liberal education is struggling for its very survival in a context of instrumentalism and technocratic rationality where the catchwords are “vocational,” “skills formation,” “privatization,” “commoditization,” and “managerialism.”(Smyth and Shacklock, 1998, p. 19).

Certainly, the diversity of most communities in many parts of the world has made teaching and educating teachers much more difficult than it has ever been before and there are expectations that teacher education needs to develop teachers who have learned to teach with a cultural eye (Irvine, 2003). Also, people who are trained to teach in a particular geographical area of the world (and governments are pretty specific about what they want these days) may end up teaching in a different part of the world or, at the very least, be teaching students from many parts of the world and whose culture and context were not considered at all during the period in training.

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