4D - Literature 1

I have left this task out for a while. I wanted to ask a few more of my questions to my colleagues and SIG group on Facebook. My topic/thoughts for my inquiry have moved on and are mainly based on teaching methods and how teaching qualifications and experience in the industry affects ways of teaching and how people get jobs as Dance and Performing Arts teachers.

I looked around on the Internet for pieces of literature, also the 'summon' part of the MDX library.
Here is a piece that interested me to read on expand my general thoughts.

1 - Google search, newspaper article.
Firstly,  I chose to search on Google, my primary (favourite) way of researching. I typed in 'articles on teachers without qualifications' there were some pages from schools and associations that talked about how to gain and train to be a teacher though I thought this link to The Guardian would best benefit my research and learning. 

The Guardian 

It first caught me when the first line read 'Do teachers need to be qualified?' which is pretty much exactly what my inquiry is going to be about. This article should delve deeper into what I'm looking into. I want to find out what qualifications are needed to become a teacher and if we really need them. Are they beneficial or can we get jobs as teachers without them? Ideally, I'm searching for more information on performing arts teachers (and their qualifications) but I wanted to do a broader search first. 

The article is a viewpoint from a teacher. He talks about how he felt he could not have become a teacher without working towards his qualifications first. He discusses the advantages and disadvantages of schools employing teachers without qualifications and he asks many questions which got me thinking about my own opinions on the matter. He finished off with some advice and final statement 'Teachers should be qualified'. 

The article was quite informal and definitely reader friendly. He was very opinionated in his writing though never overly persuasive towards the reader. There was a box below which allowed readers to post their comments and opinions on the article. I was happy after reading the whole page to find that this was helpful in my research on 'teaching qualifications'. I felt as though I had personally asked him my question (similar to the one I asked my SIG members on Facebook) and this was his answer. Though this piece that I found was similar to my line of inquiry, it didn't give me many facts or theories on the subject. I will need to look for other pieces of literature to help me learn more.