AfPE Conference

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AfPE Conference 12th July 2006 TDA Update Paul
Moses
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TDA Remit

• Secure school workforce supply
• Improve training availability and take up
• Enhance school staff training and development
• Support change management

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Training and Development of the School Workforce

• Six strands to the work
• Strand I Sept 05 October 06 Review of
  standards for Classroom Teachers
• Strand II Apr 06 Dec 06 Review of ITT
  Requirements
• Strand III Standards and requirements guidance
• Strand IV Apr 06 Apr 07 Review of standards
  for Teaching Assistants
• Strand V Sept 06 Apr 07 Review of HLTA
  standards
• Strand VI Review of Leadership standards (with
  NCSL)

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The standards for classroom teachers purposes of
the review

• To bring coherence and progression to the
  standards for
• Qualified Teacher Status
• Induction
• Senior Teacher (Threshold)
• Advanced Skills Teacher and
• to develop standards for the Excellent Teacher
  Scheme

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Uses of the standards

• set expectations
• guide aspirations
• underpin performance development
• help to identify professional development needs
  and support coaching and mentoring
• enable schools to make consistent decisions
  regarding performance development and pay and
  progression.

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Context for the review

• New Professionalism strong focus on
  professional development
• Teaching and Learning Reviews
• Introduction of Excellent Teacher Scheme
• New relationship with schools (NRwS) increased
  emphasis on school self evaluation
• Opportunity to ensure standards reflect Every
  Child Matters and the Common Core

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Features of proposed QTS standards

• Reduced in number (42 to 29)
• Professional attributes knowledge and
  understanding skills
• Every Child Matters
• Pedagogical subject knowledge
• Responsibility for own professional development

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Features of proposed QTS standards

• CEDP
• Personalised learning
• Use of statistical information
• Knowledge of development
• Working with other adults / team working

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Purposes of the ITT requirements consultation

• To simplify and streamline the current
  requirements
• To ensure that requirements are up to date and
  fit for purpose
• To complement the review of the QTS and classroom
  teacher standards

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Purposes of the ITT requirements consultation

• To acknowledge the current high quality of
  provision
• To ensure that high quality is maintained and
  raised further throughout all aspects of
  provision, and for all training routes
• To clarify expectations and regulatory frameworks

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Context

• ITT requirements currently contained in
• Qualifying to teach specify requirements for
• Trainee entry
• Training and assessment
• Management of ITT partnerships
• Quality assurance
• Highest ever quality of training and trainees
• Complementary review of the QTS and classroom
  teacher Standards

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Consultation stakeholders

• All accredited providers
• HEI
• School-based
• Schools
• Partnership
• Training
• Partnership promotion and development
• Trainees
• Other organisations and agencies
• Subject associations
• DfeS
• QCA
• Ofsted

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Timescale

• Consultation period April July 2006
• Analysis and reporting of outcomes September
  2006
• Recommendation to TDA Board 25th October 2006
• Advice to the Secretary of State November 2006
• Requirements published February 2007
• Requirements become effective September 2007
  with transition arrangements

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Proposals

• To streamline the ITT requirements
• Partnership and Quality Assurance
• To review entry requirements
• GCSE equivalence
• Safeguarding and well-being
• To review training assessment
• requirements
• Two Key Stages
• Time in school

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Development of standards and requirements
guidance

• Non-statutory, and primarily web-based
• To set out aim and scope of each standard and
  requirement
• To provide exemplification
• To link to other sources of information and
  resources
• Published from May 2007

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Challenges for the ITT PE community

• How can trainee teachers best be supported to
  meet the new Standards?
• How can PE support achievement across the QTS
  standards?
• How should ITT PE develop in the context of new
  requirements?
• How can we achieve and secure high quality ITT
  physical education?
• What are the constraints?
• What are the barriers?
• What must change?

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Contacts
www.tda.gov.uk/requirementsreview www.peitte.net w
ww.ttrb.ac.uk Contact Paul.moses_at_tda.gov.uk
ITT Development Group 02070238293
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• If you always do what you always did, you
  wont even get what you always got