Maleny BLM feature by David Turner
Published on 26 June, 2006
eyond the practicum Improving pre-service teacher training through partnership The gap between theory and practice is a perennial problem for pre-service student teachers. David Turner explains how one project is closing that gap.
When Central Queensland University (CQU) introduced a new teacher education degree, the Bachelor of Learning Management (BLM), in 2001, the aim of the innovation was to shift the traditional university experience supplemented by student teachers undertaking various “practicum” experiences in schools, to a much stronger partnership with the teaching