Fenprof on Monday disagreed with the proposal for initial teacher training, believing that the Ministry of Education’s project “reduces the level of training, devalues the role of leaders and raises doubts” about the contracts of trainees.
In a note published this Monday, ahead of a new meeting with Ministry of Education (MOE) officials regarding the process of reviewing the legal regime for initial teacher training, the National Federation of Teachers (Fenprof) argues that the government proposal “could lead to hundreds or thousands of hours being cut by various types of competitions.”
In this sense, the federation states that it has already sent its prepared conclusion on the proposal to the MoE.
One of the guardianship’s new proposals is a return to paid internships: the Ministry of Education offers internships lasting 12 hours per week, which equates to just over €800 gross, but if schools need it, interns can be offered to pay more. hours of weekly lessons and thus receive more (the limit is about 1600 euros gross per month).
Regarding the opinion sent this Monday to the Ministry of Economy, Fenprof states in a statement that the project presented by the government “does not respect the tradition of initial teacher training in Portugal, which is generally recognized as one of the highest standards in the world.”
“It does not take into account the diagnosis made in the most recent external assessment of the A3ES initial training courses; he shows more concern with quickly responding to teacher shortages than with assessing teacher training; it emphasizes didactic formality at the expense of pedagogy; it devalues the role of the collaborating teacher, the internship supervisor. In short, we may be faced with yet another missed opportunity for fundamental reform in the structure of initial training courses,” he argues.
Regarding the wording of the proposal, the Federation highlights some points that it believes “contradict other types of requirements that the DOE places on existing teachers, namely those who are required to serve a probationary period; it emphasizes a reduction in the scope of autonomy given to teachers.” institutions of higher education; expresses disagreement with the reduction in the number of study credits required for admission to a professional master’s program; considers the reduction of hours allocated to scientific supervisors to be insufficient.”
Fenprof also states that she has doubts about the nature of the contract that trainees who are considered student trainees must sign when they should be, as in the past, teaching trainees with an employment contract and all the rights and responsibilities of other employees.
The federation also says the proposal is “unclear how trainee schedules will be determined.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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