TEACHER EDUCATION AND THE PROFESSIONAL STATUS OF THE TEACHER

The last decade in particular has seen an explosion in the literature on a wide variety of methodological innovations: resource-based learning and resource centers: simulations, games and role play, independent and distance learning education based on computers and micro process. These developments are significant not only for the content of teacher education, but also for its methods. In other words, there is no point in telling teachers about innovative methods, it is far more effective to use them. The aim of teacher education courses is to understand and find meaning in the phenomenon of education. In the humanities, education as a science is studied in detail. Teachers are paid at the scale appropriate to their status; above the scale paid to ordinary skilled workers, but below the scale paid to most professionals. The wages paid to teachers is sufficient to support a single person, but insufficient to support a family, the above exposition, the authorities mentioned state that the teachers' low salaries affect their professional status adversely. In order to empower teachers, their salaries have to be upgraded. As expert educators, teachers cannot concentrate exclusively on the "intellectual training" of the child, but have to concentrate on the child as a totality. Their concern has to be equally as much with inculcating morals and positive ideals. In order to empower teachers, their salaries have to be upgraded. There is an indication in the literature that the professional status of teachers is influenced by their relationship with the pupils. To display their leadership role teachers should in all respects associate themselves with the community as a whole. Teachers should suffer with the community in their time of misery and rejoice in their happiness and never view their faults with intolerant superiority