'It doesn't prepare you for the actual curriculum taught in schools': Graduate teachers' readiness.

Abstract

<p><i>‘What do I know now that I didn’t know before?’ </i>– for those of us who are teachers, how many times have we posed this question to our students? We ask our students this question to check on their knowledge and understanding; and interestingly, this is a question I asked myself all throughout my teaching career. Perhaps, an even better question would have been ‘What do I know now that I needed to know before?’ There were many times in my later years as a secondary English and History/Geography teacher where I found myself thinking.</p>