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This is my philosophy...if you're going to be teaching a subject, then you should be proficient and have experience in that subject. So, if you're going to teach science, for example, then you should be a physicist, chemist, biologist, geologist etc etc. How can you teach a subject when the only knowledge and experience you've got consists of 3 or 4 semesters of study at Uni. You can't...you barely know enough to cover the subject yourself let alone be able to pass what knowledge you have onto others!!!. You should, at least, have a degree in the field you want to teach, preferably post graduate qualifications and some experience in your field if possible. But, at the very least, a degree. Not a BEd with a smattering of study in your field of choice. That's a complete and utter waste of time. Teachers should have a BSc or BA or BBus or LLB etc, then do a course of about a year or so long to get the teaching qualifications...like a diploma or post grad BEd. That way, we might actually get teachers that know their subjects.
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