| A Concise History of Education of Teachers, | | | | they are modern secondary schools], and |
| of Teacher Training and Teaching | | | | Europe the British Grammar School equivalent |
| | | |  Lycèe Diploma in Science or in Arts |
| (Based on author's site | | | | -with compulsory advanced classical academic |
| | | | and cultural content, became the minimum |
| In western countries the history of teacher | | | | entry requirement. |
| training and education, theories of teaching | | | | |
| and education of teachers, in western | | | | In Britain and the in British Commonwealth |
| countries, began in the first decade of the | | | | traditionally greater importance has been |
| 18th century in Germany, with teaching | | | | attached to professionalism, in that not only |
| seminaries preparing teachers to teach. In | | | | academic qualifications alone do not suffice |
| the history of education and teaching this | | | | but, also, separate professional examinations |
| was the first formal teacher training. | | | | may not be sat without a specific period of |
| | | | time of specifically professional study. |
| The first teacher training college in the | | | | Teacher training came to require higher entry |
| history of education and the history of | | | | qualifications than for training as, e.g., |
| teaching of western countries, formal teacher | | | | certified accountants or as a |
| education and training, was founded in early | | | | barrister-at-law [practicing lawyers as trial |
| 18th century in France by the Roman Catholic | | | | advocates]. Then, depending on language |
| monk Jean Babtiste de la Salle, canonised in | | | | status, specifically professional curricula |
| 1900; his Brothers of the Christian schools | | | | could be completed with a minimum of two or a |
| were teaching poor and middle class children | | | | minimum of three years of professional study |
| and were an order of non-clerical male | | | | followed by [additionally to in-house |
| teachers. This was based on what Greek | | | | training in the course of professional |
| philosophers had advocated and was later | | | | study], e.g., six moths of pupillage for |
| re-introduced into western society by Islam: | | | | legal practice, or, e.g., a year's |
| that spirituality ought not be the only | | | | probationary class-room teaching prior to |
| reason and basis of education. Until then, | | | | full professional qualification, with an |
| teacher education and training had been | | | | expectation also of later continuous |
| clerical; this, in 1725 was the first secular | | | | professional development by way of, e.g., |
| teacher training college in the history of | | | | attendance at seminars -in the case of |
| education of the West. | | | | teaching with optional further study in a |
| | | | subject offered by the Teacher Training |
| In western countries' history of education | | | | College. |
| this changed attitudes to education; | | | | |
| teaching, and teacher education and training | | | | (Until the late 20th century holders of those |
| so began to require teachers to have an | | | | minimum entry qualification, by passing a |
| understanding of the human mind, together | | | | selection examination, could become |
| with knowledge of science and art and | | | | 'temporary teachers'. Graduates of Oxford and |
| principles of teaching, and methods of | | | | Cambridge universities, upon payment of a |
| teaching and education. | | | | fee, could be conferred upon the title of |
| | | | 'master' and be placed as teachers by their |
| This requirement became established as the | | | | syndicate. Graduates of other universities |
| norm. Teacher training establishments | | | | wanting to become teachers attended the two |
| conformed to it, with the Normal Schools, the | | | | year compulsory [or longer with an additional |
| first in the history of education for the | | | | subject] teacher training colleges, or with a |
| training of teachers. | | | | Bachelor of Education degree could enter |
| | | | teacher training at final year level, subject |
| This proved popular; progress followed. This | | | | to the successful completion of a |
| was the first time when in the history of | | | | probationary year in class-room teaching. |
| education and history of teaching of western | | | | This professionalism in teaching has since |
| countries a system of education was created | | | | been required of new graduates as the |
| which required and enabled knowledge and | | | | Post-graduate Certificate in Education |
| in-service experience and certification for | | | | [PGCE], in England only [for teaching at |
| teachers, with continuing professional | | | | state schools] with a QTS skills test, and |
| development opportunities in professional | | | | similarly [and also in the case of Bachelor |
| teaching for teachers. It was an un-uniform | | | | of Education graduates] the successful |
| system of teacher education and training, but | | | | completion of an induction year in school |
| it did enabled teachers, while teaching, to | | | | teaching as Newly Qualified Teacher [NQT] |
| attend teaching seminars to refresh and | | | | -with continuing professional development. |
| increase their knowledge of teaching; it made | | | | While also non-major professional |
| possible the exchange of ideas among | | | | qualifications has been officially |
| teachers. | | | | categorised as a level above under-graduate |
| | | | university degrees [being considered to be |
| Uniform teacher education and training, | | | | reduced to two years] in the National |
| professional teaching in the history of | | | | Vocational Qualifications scheme, without |
| education first began in France. It was | | | | such a degree only those qualify for the |
| unsuccessfully attempted during the French | | | | Qualified Teacher Status [QTS] who previously |
| revolution to adopt Germany's teachers' | | | | had been trained at a Teacher Training |
| seminars, and with Napoleon's efforts in the | | | | College in the United Kingdom or in a Colony |
| second quarter of the 19th century a similar | | | | or former Colony of it, or if elsewhere if |
| and the first uniform system in the western | | | | similarly they possess examination passes at |
| history of education and training of teachers | | | | GCE or GCSE level [at grade C or above] |
| became established. | | | | additionally to the language requirement in |
| | | | Mathematics [and if to qualify to teach at a |
| In the USA and in Britain there had not been | | | | primary school also in Physics] -or their |
| a system of formal teacher education and | | | | recognised equivalents [e.g., |
| training; but, a certification for teachers, | | | | Matriculation].) |
| of moral fitness for teaching, had been | | | | |
| introduced by Elizabeth I. | | | | Reputable American teaching qualifications, |
| | | | e.g., through the Teacher Training College of |
| In England's history of education and | | | | the Columbia University, enjoy a similar |
| teaching, in the first quarter of the 19th | | | | international high regard. However, in their |
| century a teaching method was begun by Joseph | | | | history of education, having less aspired to |
| Lancaster and Andrew Bell. It was called | | | | make general education as 'practical' as in |
| 'Lancasterian': the senior students as | | | | the USA and in later Britain (with lessening |
| 'monitors', while receiving teaching from a | | | | emphasis on spirituality in India, increasing |
| tutor, were acting as teachers and teaching | | | | perfectionism in China and in the 21st |
| other students. | | | | century the UK's preference for its basis as |
| | | | respect for authority as in the USA), the |
| In Scotland's history of education and | | | | European teaching institutions almost |
| teaching Germany's teacher education became | | | | uniformly continue more to value academic |
| interested in. In the third quarter of 19th | | | | general education for entering into |
| century the Glasgow Normal Seminary for | | | | professional training as school teachers, and |
| teachers was founded by David Stowe. | | | | Britain's considering, e.g., class-room |
| | | | assistant qualifications as good substitute |
| Teacher education and training progressed. In | | | | to, e.g., the GCE/GCSE passes, as acceptable |
| the USA Horace Mann founded the Massachusetts | | | | entry qualification was criticised. |
| Normal Schools, and in Britain's colonies | | | | |
| voluntary organisations and churches | | | | Interest in entering the teaching profession |
| established formal teacher training colleges | | | | have always been based on the status of |
| and teaching. | | | | teachers, which, traditionally, was highest |
| | | | in Russia in the 2nd half of the 20th |
| Concerns were expressed in England on whether | | | | century, where teachers enjoyed more |
| it was right for persons of lower social | | | | favourable terms of employment than |
| class to attend teacher training colleges and | | | | elsewhere. |
| give teaching to children of persons of | | | | |
| higher social class. In France it was feared | | | | In Britain's history of education, the 1980's |
| that teachers by their teaching might | | | | miss-projection of the how many teachers were |
| influence young minds with liberal ideas. | | | | needed resulted in the employment of science |
| | | | graduates, without formal teaching |
| (In Japan [seemingly influencing the USA's | | | | qualifications, as, initially temporary, |
| history of education and teaching] emphasis | | | | teachers. A status was enjoyed by teachers of |
| in teaching was on instilling patriotism.) | | | | similar regard, as in European countries, |
| | | | and, about the end of the 20th century, |
| In the history of teacher education and | | | | conferring knighthood upon teachers of long |
| training of Europe, in 19th century | | | | service was politically suggested in Britain |
| 'Philosophy of Education' of Rosencrantz | | | | but due to controversies on reforming the |
| emphasized philosophical and psychological | | | | House of Lords it did not materialise. At the |
| data. This was on the lines of Islam's system | | | | beginning of the 21st century, for reasons |
| of university faculties and developed into | | | | considered economic, the status of teachers |
| separate teaching disciplines. | | | | was regarded to have been equated to those of |
| | | | classroom assistants who were socially |
| This progress in the history of education and | | | | criticised for taking classes on their own |
| teaching was furthered in Sweden by | | | | with brief training. |
| Pestalozzi. He advocated formal teacher | | | | |
| training colleges. | | | | In the USA's history of education and |
| | | | teaching a form of essentialism in education |
| (Pestalozzi, except theologically, was | | | | has been hailed, and a culture based on |
| self-educated; he never specifically set out | | | | practicality and model citizenry, emphasising |
| a written account of teaching and of teacher | | | | respect for authority. With a reported lower |
| training colleges, but his place in the | | | | literacy rate than, e.g., much less |
| history of education and teaching and his | | | | resourceful Turkey's, and in the 21st |
| greatness is deducible in outline from his | | | | century, with no general minimum standard in |
| various writings and his loving and sincere | | | | teacher training and education, some states |
| deeds and the example he set.) | | | | do not recognise the teaching qualifications |
| | | | of some others. Teachers and teaching appear |
| Froebel in Germany favoured the education of | | | | officially to enjoy no higher regard then in |
| teachers through teacher training colleges, | | | | Bernard Shaw's remark (by some believed to be |
| as did Alexander Bain's 'Education as a | | | | about writers' courses) "Those who can, do; |
| Science'. That developed with Herbart's | | | | those who can not teach". |
| pedagogical emphasis in teaching on the five | | | | |
| formal steps: preparation, presentation, | | | | In the USA public interest in better |
| comparison, generalisation, application. | | | | educational standards grew and at the end of |
| | | | the 20th century three generals were |
| Germany's model for teacher training and | | | | appointed by a state to improve teaching and |
| education became the basis of further | | | | educational standards, and at the beginning |
| developments: Derwent Coleridge and James Kay | | | | of the 21st century was appointed to improve |
| Shuttleworth in Britain, Mann in the USA | | | | educational standards at federal level a |
| broadly agreeing, favoured it. Teacher | | | | serving general. Some teachers paid only term |
| education and training, should emphasise | | | | time, having to seek vacation work during |
| techniques of teaching -"not only the | | | | summer, teaching and teachers, generally are |
| subjects of instructions, but also the method | | | | regarded as having enjoyed not as good terms |
| of teaching". | | | | and conditions in the USA, but it has |
| | | | considered adopting the European |
| By the end of the 19th century teacher | | | | baccalaureate system. |
| education and training became established in | | | | |
| France and Russia (and in Japan). Teacher | | | | The growth of interest in culture and |
| education and training came to be required by | | | | education in western society's history of |
| law to be through formal teacher training | | | | teaching has been seen, in the European |
| colleges. | | | | Union, mostly in Cyprus which reportedly has |
| | | | the highest percentage of university |
| In English speaking countries history of | | | | graduates among fellow member states. |
| education and teaching, formal teacher | | | | |
| education and training, began in Scotland | | | | In western society spiritual values in |
| with the University of Edinburgh's creation | | | | education have been protected by way of |
| of a chair in education, with the St. | | | | teaching religious studies in many schools in |
| Andrews. The USA with the efforts of, e.g., | | | | American secularisim [protection of religion |
| Henry Bernard and Nicholas Murray Butler, | | | | from political influence] and by the |
| followed. | | | | religious affiliations of many of its |
| | | | universities; in European secularism |
| Developments in English speaking countries | | | | [protecting against one's formal dominance of |
| were enhanced by the teaching techniques of | | | | the other], often with a state religion |
| Herbert Spencer in England, and pedagogy. In | | | | enshrined in the constitution, this has been |
| the USA's history of Teacher education and | | | | partly ensured by such laws as, e.g., the |
| training there were studies, e.g., by Francis | | | | requirement of Britain's Education Acts in |
| W. Parker, of Germany's pedagogical | | | | compulsory education to take pupils to |
| developments. | | | | religious worship at least once a month and, |
| | | | e.g., while British universities are not |
| In the USA's history of teaching and | | | | formally religiously affiliated, the |
| education John Dewey worked with the | | | | availability of a place of worhsip and |
| University of Chicago Laboratory Schools as | | | | clerics to students at universities. |
| influenced by the Darwinian hypothesis | | | | |
| (reportedly originating from the library of | | | | While various emphasis and special education |
| Alexandria) prior to its later evaluation by | | | | considerations (e.g., the pedagogy based |
| science. Taking into account from other | | | | Steiner-Waldorf education for creating free |
| disciplines what was considered relevant in | | | | moral and integrated individuals -by some its |
| teaching to child development, the Brown | | | | say by teachers and schools on defining the |
| University founded a department of education. | | | | curricula disagreed with, or Montessori's |
| | | | preschool and elementary school child's self |
| The Roman Catholic La Salle College in | | | | directed activities with autodidactic |
| Philadelphia, chartered 1863, had been | | | | equipment -regarded by some as risking |
| teaching education. | | | | raising obedient automatons), be it practical |
| | | | skills or Emerson's 'thinking man', have all |
| The Teachers College founded in 1888 in New | | | | had praise and criticism and arguments |
| York was popularly incorporated into the | | | | continue on prgmatism and creation -v- |
| Columbia University and was famously | | | | evolution, generally Socrates's argument that |
| established that teacher training college at | | | | the rightly trained mind would turn toward |
| beginning of 20th century, announcing "The | | | | virtue continues to carry considerable weight |
| purpose of the Teacher Training College is to | | | | in most educational systems. Basically an |
| afford opportunity, both theoretical and | | | | important aim of education and the societies' |
| practical, for the training of teachers, of | | | | all time expectations continue to be on the |
| both sexes, for kindergartens and elementary | | | | lines of these verses (by the Cypriot |
| schools and secondary schools, of principals, | | | | 'Teacher of Teachers', the late Orhan Seyfi |
| supervisors, and superintendents of schools, | | | | Ari): |
| and of specialists in various branches of | | | | |
| school work, involving normal schools and | | | | 'I was an ape' you say -or amphibian? |
| colleges" -that became the basis, in the | | | | |
| western history of education and teaching, of | | | | And now?! Are you not now.. 'man'!? " |
| teacher education and training. | | | | |
| | | | In western history of teaching and the status |
| In Britain's system of education, which | | | | of teachers the cultural values balance |
| applied throughout the Commonwealth, entry | | | | appears to have been more reflected in the |
| into teacher training came to require senior | | | | education and training of teachers in Europe, |
| secondary school, advanced level, | | | | mostly in Spain and Italy, and in France |
| Matriculation or the later General | | | | where without much disregard to spiritual |
| Certificate of Education [GCE] passes | | | | values also political and ideological |
| Ordinary [O] and at Advanced [A] level -more | | | | affiliations of teachers is the long |
| generally catered for at British Grammar | | | | established norm in professional teaching. |
| Schools [as distinct from the USA's where | | | | |