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Overview of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) arrangements in the UK
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Routes into teaching
• Undergraduate• Postgraduate
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WalesEngland UG routes into teaching• Bachelor of Education (BEd)• Bachelor of Arts (BA)• Bachelor of Science (BSc)
• 3- or 4-year undergraduate programmes• Studied concurrently with a teacher training
element (e.g. Qualified Teacher Status)
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PG routes into teaching
• PGCE courses are available at:– universities and colleges throughout the UK– in a school • School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT)• Teach First• School Direct Training Programme
• Between one and two years long
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Current challenges
• Rising demand for teachers• Teacher training places• Application processes• Promotion and marketing
Universities UK Parliamentary Briefing , Initial Teacher Training
Nov 2013
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WalesEngland Rising demand for teachers
• National audit office: – Extra 256,000 school places will be needed by
2014–15– Demand for teachers could increase by 14,000
between now and 2014.
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• Recruitment to ITT has fallen:– government allocated 9,580 to the School Direct
route but just 6,370 places were taken up (66% of allocation)
– 560 postgraduate ITT places for secondary physics were filled against an overall target of 990 (66% of allocation)
– 550 places short of the maths target (88% of physics)• 91% of allocation of UG and PG to universities
was filled
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WalesEngland Teacher training places
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Application processesEnglandWales
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• Many School Direct partnerships did not consider applications made after the school term had concluded (15 July 2013)
• Some universities received significant proportions of applications to key subjects after July 15th but could not interview because they had reached set targets
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• Government criticised for advertising only one route: School Direct
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Promotion and marketing
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Current opportunitiesEnglandWales
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• Raised awareness of teaching as a profession
• Closer than ever liaison between universities and schools, with universities often taking the lead for ‘core’ training
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Current opportunitiesEnglandWales
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• Continuing professional development opportunities for newly qualified teachers– Mathematics Specialist Teacher (MaST)
Programme for primary teachers• Subject knowledge including progression through the
primary school• Pedagogy• Collaborative working with colleagues
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MaST programmeEnglandWales
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• Evaluation:– Positive impact on pupils’ attitudes in school– Better than expected gains of pupils’ attainment– More frequent professional development activities
happening in schools– MaSTs are being used in other schools to support
mathematics National Foundation for Educational Research
Evaluation of the Mathematics Specialist Teacher (MaST) programme TrainingJune 2013
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ReferencesEnglandWales
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• Universities UK Briefing Documents can be found at:– http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/highereducatio
n/Documents/2013/InitialTeacherTraining-Nov2013.pdf
– http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/highereducation/Documents/2013/BriefingInitialTeacherTraining.pdf
• The MaST programme evaluation can be found at:– http://www.nfer.ac.uk/nfer/publications/PMSZ0
1/PMSZ01.pdf