Future teachers get a head start with new internship
Source: Western Australia. Minister for Education and Training. Media Release
"Ten student teachers at Edith Cowan University’s South West Campus will get the opportunity to finish their fourth year of study at a local primary school. The students will be the first to take part in a pilot internship program at Kingston Primary School with a Memorandum of Agreement to be signed between the Department of Education and Training and ECU. Kingston Primary School, in Australind, is under construction and due to open in 2009. Education and Training Minister Mark McGowan said the students would be merit selected for the program which would give them hands on experience. “The program remodels the fourth year syllabus by integrating theory with practical lessons,” Mr McGowan said."