Originally Posted by
Gadget
{IMHO...} Qualifications are not to prove to anyone else you can do something: they are an acknowledgement that you have done the work and gained the knowledge & experience from that course. You don't do the course to get the bit of paper, you do it for the knowledge gained from doing the course. To prove the knowledge, you just need to practice it - not show a certificate. So, yes I think that courses and training for teachers is a good thing, I don't hold to the opinion that the award it's self is worth anything - it's the experience gained in striving for it.
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