Is there a problem with teacher training?

I think the most efficient way to improve schools is to improve the training and ability of teachers. Many majors at college, especially biology and chemistry, are particularly difficult. It seems just about one in four incoming freshmen are pre-med or pre-dentistry or pre-vet ect. If all of these students were actually allowed to fulfill their dreams of becoming a doctor, I would be very nervous about going in for open-heart surgery. I only want the best of the best working on life or death issues that doctors must do. Because of this, it is important that the into to biology and into to chemistry classes at luther are "weed out" classes. In this way, hopefully many of the students who do not have the ability to perform at high levels will switch their major. Then only the smartest people are able to go to become doctors.

Is the Education Major like this? I don't think so. In fact, I know a couple people with less-than-adequate intellectual abilities to become education majors because they have been weeded out of 3 majors already. A friend from high school scored an 17 on his ACTs, which means he really has no business to be accepted into college in the first place. At Coe in Cedar rapids, he was weeded out of 3 majors because they were too hard. Because of these 3 majors, he was on academic probation. Not only did he became an elementary education major, he started geting over 3.5 GPAs and got on the deans list!!!!!! This person shouldn't even have been accepted into college!
I know another person at luther who is almost just like this.

My mother is a teacher, and she gets so mad when her school hires new teachers. They are mostly from Upper Iowa, which is a notoriously crappy school. These teachers who graduated from a horrible education program are getting the jobs at her school just because they are from postville originally. One of the new teachers diddn't even know alot of the educational terms used today like differentiated education, co-teaching, and the like.

I think it should be the Education Major that is weeding students out. Not every person who wants to become a teacher should be allowed to do so. Just like you wouldn't want even an average person doing surgery on you, why would you want a less intelligent person doing education on you or your children?

Of course the difference between being a doctor and and a teacher is about $100,000. That's why so many smart people want to become doctors. Since less really smart people want to be teachers, it is hard to weed people out and then have a shortage. However, if the teacher salary was increased, it would be good incentive to attract people that are pre-med caliber. If this was done, along with giving them a rigorous training program instead of one that anyone can graduate through, Education would be better.

If the issue is GPA or education quality doesn't predict who will be a good teacher, I would have to disagree. Of course this does not predict good teachers from one case to another, but few thing rarely do. However, I think if we looked at the GPAs and teacher quality over the thousands of teachers from the past half of a century, I would bet that the better teachers on average would be the ones that have high GPAs.