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HE based Teacher Education a front line public
service under threat?

• UCU 2nd November

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Main routes into teaching

• PGCE
• Three or four year undergraduate
• School-centred (SCITT)
• Employment-based routes (inc GTP, Teach 1s).

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HE based Teacher Education a front line public
service under threat?

• UCU 2nd November

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Placement difficulties

• Inspections
• Expertise
• Logistical
• NQT responsibilities
• Staff changes
• Workload

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Benefits to schools

• Recruitment
• New fresh ideas
• University expertise
• CPD
• Other links

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HE based Teacher Education a front line public
service under threat?

• UCU 2nd November

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University contribution

• Space to share reflect
• Broader range of settings experiences
• Access to resources (library ICT)
• Scope to build through CPD, Masters etc

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HE based Teacher Education a front line public
service under threat?

• UCU 2nd November

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Coalition policies

• Shift from teacher training colleges into
  school
• Expansion of Teach 1st
• Higher entry qualifications
• Systematic synthetic (and only systematic
  synthetic) phonics
• Opportunities to study at masters level

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Gove speech

• we will reform teacher training to shift
  trainee teachers out of college and into the
  classroom. We will end the arbitrary bureaucratic
  rule which limits how many teachers can be
  trained in schools, shift resources so that more
  heads can train teachers in their own schools
  Teaching is a craft and it is best learnt as an
  apprentice observing a master craftsman or woman.
  Watching others, and being rigorously observed
  yourself as you develop, is the best route to
  acquiring mastery in the classroom.

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HE based Teacher Education a front line public
service under threat?

• UCU 2nd November

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HE based Teacher Education a front line public
service under threat?

• UCU 2nd November

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Systematic phonics

• Children cannot read to learn before they
  have learned to read. Without that secure
  foundation even the most gifted and innovative
  teacher will struggle to inspire and inform. We
  know that, whatever else may work, teaching
  children to read using the tried and tested
  method of systematic synthetic phonics can
  dramatically reduce illiteracy. So we will make
  sure that teacher training is improved so every
  new primary teacher - and every teacher in place
  - is secure in their grasp of phonics teaching.
  We will ensure teachers have the best reading
  materials to help embed great phonics teaching.

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HE based Teacher Education a front line public
service under threat?

• UCU 2nd November

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Three routes to wisdom

• Experience (bitterest)
• Imitation (easiest)
• Reflection (noblest)