{"id":565,"date":"2016-04-21T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sioe\/?p=565"},"modified":"2016-04-21T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T11:59:00","slug":"gazing-into-the-teacher-supply-crystal-ball-a-response-to-educational-excellence-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sioe\/2016\/04\/21\/gazing-into-the-teacher-supply-crystal-ball-a-response-to-educational-excellence-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazing into the teacher supply crystal ball: a response to Educational Excellence Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month\u2019s White Paper<\/a>\u00a0 provides much for teacher educators to think about. Chapter Two lays out how the class of 2020 might train to teach. The pen portrait of Chris on page 34 has been painted to show a perhaps predictable picture involving school based\u00a0 training at a SCITT as part of a multi-academy trust.\u00a0The involvement of HEI \u2018Centres of Excellence\u2019, as envisioned in the White Paper, is not that prominent.\u00a0So, in the spirit of imagining \u2018another future\u2019 I\u2019ve looked into the SIoE crystal ball and pulled out\u00a0 two potential alternatives\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 2021 and Sonia and Waqas are in the final year of their 3 year degree level apprenticeships. They are both based in a coastal \u2018cold spot\u2019 school, Waqass in primary and Sonia in a secondary mathematics department. The school is part of a MAT with an established partnership with the Yorkshire and Humberside Centre of Excellence (based at, yes you guessed it, the SIoE\u2026). Sonia and Waqas chose the new apprenticeship route as they are committed to work in the region.\u00a0\u00a0 The apprenticeship ensures they stay in the region for five years \u2013 bursaries are now long gone and replaced by a guaranteed CPD package in return for working on the coast. Sonia and Waqas started their apprenticeship straight from college, and the modules in their degree credit their development as teachers. They also are part of a regional online community of subject experts led by the university.\u00a0They rub shoulders with Teach First participants, PGCE student teachers and overseas teachers working in international schools.\u00a0Local employers, alongside local government, have funded the apprenticeship\/ golden handcuffs scheme as they agree that teacher recruitment and retention is a cornerstone of regional social and economic development.<\/p>\n

2021 also sees Jack and Chloe register for their Education Doctorate in music and drama education.\u00a0They\u2019ve just finished their two year PGCE working at Masters level.\u00a0The award is open to all\u00a0 QTS teachers and recruits nationally and internationally.\u00a0The course is a partnership between a long established SCITT, two HEIs and a Conservatoire who together aim to\u00a0 develop subject specialists who will lead primary and secondary arts education at a national level.\u00a0 The teachers have the opportunity to work in the schools served by the SCITT and also develop as researchers in residence in posts jointly funded by the SCITT and the HEI consortium. They provide a sustainable solution to shortage subject teacher supply and are future leaders for their specialists, superseding the previous SLE and part-time HEI tutor stop-gap solution in the old School Direct era.<\/p>\n

You may consider these vignettes to be the fanciful musings of a Marty McFly character or as unlikely as Isaac Asimov\u2019s mechanical teacher (http:\/\/visual-memory.co.uk\/daniel\/funtheyhad.html<\/a>).\u00a0But \u2018there is another way\u2019 and just as Back to the Future<\/a>\u00a0was hit as well as miss in terms of predictions, the alternative futures imagined above give us the opportunity to plan ahead.\u00a0These plans would benefit individuals and communities everywhere, supporting excellence developed in conjunction with local partners in schools, colleges and HEIs.<\/p>\n

David Owen is the Head of the Department of Teacher Education<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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