ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a model to inform planning for teacher preparation, based on an exposition by Tom O'Donoghue and Whitehead (2008). A system should prevail whereby institutions responsible for teacher preparation are all the time able to ensure that sufficient graduates are available to match any expansion in demand for new teachers, while they should also be equally able to ensure there is no oversupply in times of contraction. The ideal scenario would envisage both primary and secondary school applicants for teacher preparation programmes having at least five years of secondary school education. Another feature of the ideal scenario is that both primary and secondary school teacher preparation should take place in institutions which are an integral part of the university system. The initiatives taken there would seem to indicate a greater level of influence, power and control by teachers over teacher preparation than in England and Wales, and Scotland.
