DfE seeking bidders for Institute to train 1,000 new teachers a year – but trainers question ‘value’ of the scheme. The government has set aside £121 million to fund its controversial new Institute of Teaching, which will train 1,000 new teachers a year. The Institute will be funded for six years, opening in September 2022, and …
The government will run a public consultation on the proposals of its controversial teacher training market review before they are implemented. Academies minister Baroness Berridge confirmed the consultation in the House of Lords today where she was told the review “appears to have alienated virtually every provider of teacher training in the country”. UCET fears the …
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While ’walking the Mersey’ yesterday (not quite walking the Nile, I appreciate, but my personal lockdown challenge!) I bumped into two of my former student teachers from at least 15 years ago. My children will complain that this is a regular occurrence because I have worked in Teacher Education in Liverpool for about 20 years. Both were …
Jan Rowe, Head of Initial Teacher Education at Liverpool John Moores University Read More »
HEIs play a fundamental role in providing subject specialist input to support trainee teachers on their journey towards becoming effective practitioners. The Middlesex University ITE Partnership has always been at the forefront of recruiting and training subject specialist teachers, especially in shortage subjects. In this way, the recently validated PGCE humanities programme was created in response …
Tremaine Baker, Senior Lecturer (Practice) in Secondary Teacher Education Read More »
I would like to celebrate the way in which our strong and well-established ITE partnership was able to flex and deliver genuinely supportive and tailored support to schools in our local community during the pandemic. For example, we delivered extra training in reading and maths interventions to our Year 2 students so that they were able …
Joanna Hume, Senior Lecturer and BA (Hons) Primary Education Programme Lead Read More »
The education I am currently receiving from Nottingham has given me great confidence in myself as a beginning teacher. The level of support and dedication I have experienced has been amazing and given the current circumstances the team and the partner schools are doing an amazing job of offering us support and ensuring we are …
Declan Wayne, student teacher at the University of Nottingham Read More »
I have been a teacher, a school based-mentor and H.E based teacher educator for over twenty years. During this time, educational policy priorities for schools have changed and ideas on what ‘good teaching’ is have changed. Two things, from my experience of the ITE sector have remained solid: the passion of beginning teachers to work …
Nicola Warren-Lee, Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Bristol Read More »
In my role as Professional Coordinating Mentor at a large Training School in London I experience, first-hand, the life that trainees breathe into our communities with their innovative approaches and energy. Their development and positive impact in schools rely upon the bespoke professional support provided by the HEI school partnership model which equips each of …
I would like to celebrate the strength and quality of the ITE at the University of Nottingham as I thoroughly enjoyed the course and have become a confident and successful educator since completing my PGCE. The course was well adapted to the needs of trainee teachers and supported me on my journey to entering the …
The agility with which ITE Partnerships have responded to the pandemic reflects the strength and quality of their provision. This case study illustrates how the secondary education group at Middlesex University have developed a ‘pedagogy of the pandemic’. Initially, as a group of teacher educators, they had to adapt and develop their training provision so …
Middlesex University Secondary Education Group – ‘Pedagogy of the Pandemic’ Read More »
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