Behaviour management, as in every other aspect
of teaching, has both a theoretical basis and a
practical component. Student teachers in Israel, as
elsewhere in the Western world, receive very little, if
any of that theoretical basis (Davies & Ferguson,
1997; Merrett & Wheldall, 1993; Reid, 1989). They
must deal with the practical aspects alone and with
only marginal methodology. The college supervisors
are the only persons in the training system who have
the ability to support the development of a reservoir
of professional coping methods for those entering
the complex and multifaceted profession of teaching.
They bear full responsibility. However, this
research has indicated that they renounce this
obligation, if not directly, then in practice, whether
for ideological or other reasons. They face the
student teachers lacking the tools to cope with
behaviour management, motivation and obligation
to educate them to cope with behaviour management
and basing success in behaviour management
on the personality of the future teacher and
exempting themselves from accountability.