Preservice Training

>From my last 33 years in the public education field I have worked with many teachers from many different teacher prep. backgrounds.  There has been a common deficiency in these teachers that the Master Plan should consider.

Most teacher prep programs do not appear to have reviewed their training programs applicability to the real educational world.

Should a requirement be established that state supported training programs need to be reviewed by a panel of practicing teachers at least every 3 to 5 years.  This is to insure that the relevancy of the training given preservice teachers will apply to the environments that they will encounter in the real world classrooms.

An additional requirement should be that all preservice teachers need a full year's internship program, from starting class to finishing the year.  Such a program must have strict supervisory guidelines.  During the practice teaching portion of their training, preservice teachers need to work the same hours as a practicing teacher, not the 6 week program, 4 day workweek, found in many of the local training institutions.  Preservice teachers also need increasingly greater exposure to children in classrooms during the course of their training, i.e. so many required hours at 1st. term Jr., more hours at 2nd term Jr., etc.

What does the panel think about a requirement that university level faculty be required to have recent, (maybe within 5 years), significant, public school classroom experience to be allowed to teach in certain, designated programs? Perhaps a similar requirement should be placed on administrative level personnel in the public schools?  Does the panel have an opinion?