Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[Brad Sallows]

1) It's not just coursework. They have practicuums. Did you not have student teachers when you attended school? Did you never have one in any of your kid's classes? My kid had one in her classroom last year.

2) How exactly do you propose training teachers instead? Pretty easy to criticize from the sidelines with no alternative in sight.

I know full well what is involved; I went through the public school system when shop classes still existed (I took 3) and have teachers and administrators in the family tree going back two generations (ie. since "normal school" days).

A shop teacher is not dealing with academic subjects, and probably not with students below the age of 12 or 13. Preparation for teaching shop classes doesn't need to be part of an employment program for faculty of ed professors. I am confident that if a general academic teacher suited to the entire range of K-12 can be adequately prepared in less than one year (course work, examinations, student teaching), a shop teacher can be adequately prepared in less.

JHCOACIAS, I hope we don't have to have another round of "teaching is hard to learn/do" here.

 

[HavokFour]

Sounds like something else is coming. May be time to open up another betting pool.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2108350169120981316

https://twitter.com/x/status/2108352805534613958

 

[ytz]

I know full well what is involved;

And yet didn't know that teachers have practicums in their training?

I am confident that if a general academic teacher suited to the entire range of K-12 can be adequately prepared in less than one year (course work, examinations, student teaching), a shop teacher can be adequately prepared in less.

Not the question asked.

 

[ytz]

Sounds like something else is coming. May be time to open up another betting pool.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2108350169120981316

https://twitter.com/x/status/2108352805534613958

CEO DIA is being given God like procurement powers. People definitely aren't ready for what is coming. But that also means a lot more of the pols picking stuff instead of letting the process play out.

 

[Czech_pivo]

CEO DIA is being given God like procurement powers. People definitely aren't ready for what is coming. But that also means a lot more of the pols picking stuff instead of letting the process play out.

Interesting to see what happens and where the chips fall.
I doubt that the ‘Pols’ are opening the old Sears Christmas Catalog and are turning to Military Hardware section and are just randomly picking whatever looks good to them. There has to be a number of CAF individuals involved in this process. Carney is no fool, regardless what some on here think, he has a plan and a process and I’m certain that he’s executing it accordingly.