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Dear Members, Please find some recordings from recent #DiverseEd events which may be of interest. #DiverseEd Event Recordings Whole #DiverseEd event – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvhxPXOaPVc&t=4s Landscape – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wb7nbZbp3A&t=5s Curriculum – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3KgF_1HkbE Culture – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q7RWmbKONo Leadership – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFlwhAWz0Kc Weekly Diversity and Inclusion Webcast #DiverseEd are launching a weekly Diversity and Inclusion webcast interviewing D&I leads next Sunday, to book onto a…
Read MoreThe Exeter Consortium is a group of over 70 schools in and around Exeter. Working in partnership, the Consortium and Exeter Teaching School Alliance are training the next generation of teachers, improving the quality of learning, raising the attainment of pupils and closing the gap between different groups of pupils. The partnership also provides challenge…
Read MoreNigel Bowen is the Lead Guidance & Development Adviser (GDA) for the Transition to Teach (T2T) programme, run by Cognition Education In January 2019, a Department for Education (DfE) survey of more than 3,000 people considering teacher training found more than half would probably or definitely change career if they could. Around the same time,…
Read MoreHow ‘Making Every Lesson Count’ helped me to make every observation count Joe Burkmar, Partnership Director at Wessex Schools Training Partnership I have been in charge of a SCITT for five years now and one of my biggest bugbears has always been inconsistency in the quality of feedback that trainees receive. In my experience, there…
Read MorePublished by: TES Published on: 8th April 2020 Providers call to be allowed to offer jobs to trainees that are conditional on performance with pupils. Teacher trainers are urging the government to allow them to make offers “conditional on school experience”, as they fear disruption to the application process means they may otherwise struggle to…
Read MoreTeacher training providers ‘anxious’ that some trainees won’t get chance to qualify because of a lack of DfE guidance. Teacher training providers say the need to reinvent assessment and recruitment schemes at “extremely short notice” because of the coronavirus crisis is causing them “significant anxiety”. Trainers are coming under “significant pressure” from students seeking clarity about their prospects following school closures,…
Read MoreIt is just over two weeks since the government announced that schools would be closed to the majority of pupils for a prolonged period of time. Whilst media attention has inevitably, and rightly, focused on the implications for children and home-schooling, an untold story is the efforts of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) providers who have…
Read MoreDfE coronavirus helpline Email DfE.coronavirushelpline@education.gov.uk Telephone 0800 046 8687 If you have a query about coronavirus (COVID-19), relating to schools and other educational establishments in England contact our helpline. Lines are open Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm and weekends 10am to 4pm.
Read MoreDate published: 27th February 2020 Review highlights the impact of NASBTT Teacher Educator Programmes on nearly 650 mentors in first year An independent review of NASBTT’s Teacher Educator Programmes (TEPs) has reported that nearly 650 School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) and School Direct mentors have already attained TEP professional accreditation. From introductory mentoring and coaching…
Read MorePublished by: Education Support Published on: 14th February 2020 The importance of kindness in schools Schools are the perfect place to cultivate more kindness not only as a means towards a more harmonious society but also as an antidote to some of the toxicity in our education system says Adrian Bethune. Find out more. Feedback not…
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