professors at institutions that grant teaching certificates should be required to have closer contact with schools and to support and mentor their teacher trainees in their teaching practice and first year of schooling institutions that teach educators should also be asked to regularly revise their programmes to make them current and relevant to the schools their graduates work in and to reflect national education priorities in the government launched its programme to promote the quality of initial teacher training programa de fomento de la calidad de la formacion inicial docente pfid