Teaching Shakespeare well should involve treating it as a script for performance, and some form of interactive process. It's not about reading the play to yourself or out in class without any analysis or interaction with the text. Teaching Shakespeare is just one thing that a PGCE English student needs to learn in one year, a lot of which is spent in school. For example, classroom management is another huge issue. Earlier this year, David Blunkett announced big direct cash grants to schools, for schools to spend on whatever they want.
Schools are free to spend that money on training days for their teachers if they wish to do so.
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to offer year-round support to teachers to help them deliver Shakespeare in the classroom, it emerged on Monday.