Training Schools Network

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Training Schools Network

• Jim McGrath
• TDA Training School Consultant

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Training Schools in YH

• Beaumont Hill School Darlington
• Carmel Catholic College Darlington
• Framwellgate School Durham
• Gosforth High School Newcastle
• MacMillan City Academy Middlesbrough
• Northfield Sports College Stockton on Tees
• St Thomas More RC High North Tyneside
• St Thomas More Catholic School Gateshead

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What is Expected of Training Schools

• Performance Indicators give a flavour of what it
  is to be a Training School
• 30 of teaching staff are trained in mentoring or
  coaching
• 75 of subject departments have taken one or more
  ITT trainees in the past three years
• 90 of all trainees evaluated their experience as
  good or better
• 30 of Training School funded CPD activities
  involve collaborative outreach work
• 25 of all staff (the whole school workforce)
  have participated in accredited or award-bearing
  professional development in the last three years
• 20 of teaching staff are engaged in practitioner
  led research
• 30 of teaching staff contribute to the
  development and or delivery of in-house training
  programmes
• 90 of all CPD training evaluations are rated as
  good or better
• These percentages are minimum baselines

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Further Expectations

• To work closely with a range of partners Other
  Schools HEI, Local Authorities, and other
  Childrens Services
• (We offer Generic Advice to schools about
  engagement)
• Expectation of Additionality and Innovation
• The Research Engaged school
• The Pedagogical Development School
• Whole workforce development school
• Collaborative hub school
• Extended multi-agency school
• ITT Lead school

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OfSTED view of TS-LEA collaboration (2003)

• 2003 OfSTED report judged Training School
  programme to be a success but noted a great deal
  of variation in the extent of LEA involvement in
  the work of Training Schools. About one in seven
  schools actively and successfully participated in
  collaborative work with the LEA.
• There is clearly scope for the further
  development of collaborative work between a
  significant number of Training Schools and their
  LEAs (OfSTED report in Training Schools, 2003)

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How Does A School Become a Training School

• Secondary School Initiative
• Meet HPSS 2008
• http//www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/specialist
  schools/
• Establish Partnerships including LA
• Make choice
• DCSF have criteria to choose Priority is LA
  that havent got a Training School or
  Geographical aspects
• Plan put together
• Lasts until next Ofsted and further year on at
  least
• Jim McGrath 07931 929 608
• or
• jmmcgrath_at_gmail.com