Teacher Education and Teacher Quality
1.0 INTRODUCTION One of the areas that promote the development of the country is education by ensuring the development of a workforce. The institution of strong educational institutions leads to a society full of enlightened people, which can lead to positive economic progress and social change. Positive social change and associated economic growth are achieved as people apply the skills they learned while in school. Acquiring these skills is encouraged by one ‘teacher’ all of us. For this reason, nations seeking economic and social development must not neglect teachers and their contribution to national development. Teachers are a major factor in a student's success in learning. Teacher performance often determines not only the quality of education, but the general performance of the students they train. So teachers themselves should get the best education possible, so that they too can help train students in the best possible way. It is well known that teacher quality and teachi