The student associates scheme 200608

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The Student Associates Scheme 200608
Derek Haylock, TDA Consultant for the SAS
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Student Associates (Core) Scheme Level 1 10 days
placement, not much more than a taster Level 2
15 days placement, aligned to QTS standards
AimHigher strand of the SAS (pilot) Like level 1,
but emphasis on WP 1st generation undergraduates.
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• Aims of the Student Associates Scheme 200608
• To raise levels of attainment and aspiration of
  young people in schools and to contribute to the
  Widening Participation agenda, particularly in
  schools with pupils from areas of deprivation.
• To contribute to the recruitment of able and
  committed students to initial teacher training
  (ITT), particularly in priority subjects and in
  under-represented groups.

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Student Associates Scheme

• Students in HEIs do 15-day placements in schools,
  supported by 15 hours induction and training.
• Providers recruiting from most HEIs in England
• Providers funded 105 per SA per placement day,
  to cover bursaries, school payments, admin,
  training
• SAs paid bursary of 40 per day
• All schemes work to the core programme
• Criterion 1 schools serving areas of deprivation
• Priority 1 secondary Maths, Physics, Chemistry
• Priority 2 secondary ICT, DT, MFL, RE, music,
  other science

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Student Associates Scheme

• Approximately 16,000 students will take part in
  the scheme 2006-08
• 5920 students will be secondary placements in
  maths, physics and chemistry
• 5120 students will be secondary placements in
  other priority subjects
• 4960 students will be placements in other
  secondary subjects or in primary and foundation
  stage

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Eligible in July 2007 2400Eligible in July
2008 6400Eligible in July 2009 5600Eligible
in July 2010 1600

• Estimates of numbers of Student Associates on the
  2006-08 scheme eligible to apply for ITT

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Core Goal 1 Professional Behaviour Student
Associates are to learn how to behave
professionally in a school setting, to
demonstrate and promote in young people positive
values and attitudes, and to help to raise
aspirations of young people for learning in
general and for higher education (HE) in
particular.
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• Induction and training
• Student Associates will be introduced to
• a code of practice for their school placement
• how they should behave as a professional in a
  school and classroom context and provide a
  positive role model for young people
• the Widening Participation agenda
• the need to raise the aspirations of some young
  people in relation to learning in general and HE
  in particular.

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Examples of achievements during school placement
experience

• They have behaved professionally in the school
  and classroom and provided a positive role model
  to young people, showing qualities such as
  commitment, willingness to learn, reliability and
  initiative
• they have satisfied consistently the requirements
  of the code of practice for their school
  placement
• they have planned and taken opportunities to
  introduce young people to their own experience of
  HE.

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Core Goal 6 Planning part or all of a lesson

• Student Associates are to learn how to plan and
  structure part or all of a lesson which interests
  and motivates young people and which promotes
  learning.

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Induction and trainingStudent Associates will be
introduced to

• how lessons in their subject or phase are
  structured and planned
• how to plan for part or all of a lesson (with a
  group or a class) in their subject or phase to
  assist a teacher in the classroom.

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Examples of achievements during school placement
experience

• With the guidance of a teacher, they have planned
  and delivered one or more lessons or parts of
  lessons (with groups or a whole class) in their
  subject or phase and reflected on their planning
  and teaching.

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Core Goal 12 includes

• (for those interested in ITT) they have been able
  to summarize their school experience achievements
  in relation to a subset of QTS standards in a
  Training Entry Profile (TEP)

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53 Providers at present, average about 150 SAs
each Bishops Grosseteste University
College Bolton University Canterbury Christchurch
University Cornwall Local Authority Design And
Technology Association Edge Hill University EM
Direct Ltd Grantham Goldsmiths College,
University of London Institute of Education,
London Keele University Liverpool John Moores
University London Metropolitan University Manchest
er Metropolitan University Middlesbrough Local
Authority
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Middlesex University Newman College
Birmingham Nottingham Trent University Open
University Oxford Brookes University Plymouth
Consortium Royal College of Music
London Sheffield Hallam University University
of York St. Martin's College Lancaster Staffordshi
re University The Scollar Trust Limited
Southend Two Schools Consortium,
Walthamstow University of Central
England University of Central Lancashire Universit
y of Chester
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University of Chester University of
Chichester University of Derby University of
East Anglia Norwich University of
Exeter University of Greenwich University of
Hull University of Leeds University of
Leicester University of Manchester Universities
of Northumbria and Newcastle University of
Portsmouth University of Reading University of
Sheffield University of Southampton
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Universities of Sunderland, Durham and
Teesside University of Sussex University of the
West of England University of Warwick University
of Wolverhampton University of Worcester Imperial
College London University of Gloucester with
University of Bath
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Everyones a winner!

• Student Associates
• Young people in schools
• University WP units
• University subject departments
• ITT providers
• School staff
• DfES