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Emerging Education Policy in Wales – helpful or harmful to the Professional Status of Teachers?

Emerging Education Policy in Wales – helpful or harmful to the Professional Status of Teachers?. Children's Song

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Emerging Education Policy in Wales – helpful or harmful to the Professional Status of Teachers?

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  1. Emerging Education Policy in Wales– helpful or harmful to theProfessional Status of Teachers?

  2. Children's Song We live in our own world,A world that is too smallFor you to stoop and enterEven on hands and knees,The adult subterfuge.And though you probe and pryWith analytic eye,And eavesdrop all our talkWith an amused look,You cannot find the centreWhere we dance, where we play,Where life is still asleepUnder the closed flower,Under the smooth shellOf eggs in the cupped nestThat mock the faded blueOf your remoter heaven.R S Thomas

  3. 1870

  4. “Initial teacher education, as the first stage of professional education, is the foundation on which all further professional development is built” (Livingstone and Robertson, 2003)

  5. Versus

  6. RAISING THE BAR? • B grade GCSE minimum • Masters in Educational Practice (MEP)

  7. Lowering the Bar? • More GTP candidates • Introduction of Teach First Cymru

  8. 80% • 50%

  9. 69% • 14%

  10. 34%

  11. Tabberer Review of Initial Teacher Education • Good for beginning teachers? • Good for children?

  12. “All professional and ethical frameworks removed”

  13. “We have a responsibility to support the practitioners working in our education system”

  14. School teachers School learning support workers FE teachers FE support workers WBL staff and youth workers EDUCATION (WALES) BILL

  15. Support staff in maintained schools (fte)

  16. ‘.. 2:1 ..’

  17. :FE should be included, because • 27% of FE students(64,000) are under age 19 • ‘Transforming Education’ requires providers to work in partnership to provide choice of learning pathways to 14-19 year olds across school and college settings • vocational provision will increase the number of FE teachers in schools and pupils taught in FE settings

  18. What impact does this have on Professional Status? Professional Status is protected by different categories of regulation, and enhanced by having regard for all those involved in contributing to the standards within the profession as a whole. The Institution of Engineering and Technology

  19. Children at the heart-Valuing Children? • Valuing Teachers? • Valuing Education?

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