TTowards a More Effective Initial English Language Teacher Education Programme presents a case for change and proposes innovation in initial English language teacher education (IELTE) programmes of the developing world. It urges through analysis of a programme curriculum that the major problem in most initial teacher education programmes of the developing world which results to in-effectiveness of the programmes as demonstrated by prospective teacher trainees' low proficiency and low teaching competence on graduation is a result of weak programme content and the actual training process: the content lacks some basic courses necessary for effective language teaching, and the training approach does not enhance deep learning and transfer of training-room learning into the real classroom teaching. It then presents the proposed revised programme (content and methodology) as a way forward to an effective initial teacher education programme and discusses the rationale for the changes. Itlastly raises and discusses innovation issues and implementation strategies for implementing the proposed innovation.