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Working together with Oxford Education Deanery….

Working together with Oxford Education Deanery…. ….. to build professional capital. The best schools have the best teachers. Attract the best entrants Keep the best entrants Accelerate teachers’ capacity for improvement Develop their abilities to teach and coach others. Why this idea?.

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Working together with Oxford Education Deanery….

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  1. Working together with Oxford Education Deanery…. …..to build professional capital

  2. The best schools have the best teachers • Attract the best entrants • Keep the best entrants • Accelerate teachers’ capacity for improvement • Develop their abilities to teach and coach others

  3. Why this idea? • External • The Schools White Paper: The Importance of Teaching • Hargreaves and Fullan: Building Professional Capital • Internal • Oxford Education Deanery • Building a community of professional practice

  4. An enhanced M.Sc. In Learning and Teaching from Oxford • Maximise the impact of new research on teaching • Provide the opportunity for teachers to gain an MSc. in Learning and Teaching • Motivate and retain excellent teachers • Provide cross-school support to such teachers and their school based mentors • Contribute to building communities of learners within and across OCL schools

  5. What is the MLT? • A professional development masters. • Focused on learning and teaching in schools • rooted in a dialectic between research and practice. • 4 themes: • Teachers and learners; • Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; • Responding to pupils; • Schools, equity and achievement.

  6. Existing MLT Course structure • Designed to follow M-level PGCE, so a taught year followed by development project (Years 2 and 3) • Year 2 – 5 weekends; 10K words • Year 3 – 2 weekends; 20 K words • No M-level credits? Initial taught year, mirroring PGCE work(Year 1) • Year 1 – 4 weekends: 2 x 5K words • http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/courses/msc-learning-teaching/final-year-project/mlt-poster-gallery/

  7. Enhancing the MLT for schools • Support from schools: • Funding • Time off for study • Presentations at staff meetings • A Kentish MAT sending 8 staff on the course, from 2 schools (including the director) • Insisting on school-wide topics • Not forbidding teachers to discuss issues of teaching and learning!

  8. Enhanced OCL MLT

  9. What’s the evidence that this will work?

  10. How it could work • A 2 year masters currently costs £5,200 + (full time Masters cost £7,500) • Each of the partners makes a commitment to achieve the benefits. • OU will provide bursaries for qualifying teachers. • Schools contribute £1,000 of MLT fees for each of the 2 years, plus minimum 1 day study time/year. • Teachers pay the remaining fees. • OCL will support the enhancement provision, of c.£3,000/year. • Currently seeking sponsors for the annual conference • Potential research funding may also contribute.

  11. For discussion • Do we agree in principle with the proposal? • Are we committed to financially supporting the scheme and to what extent? • How are we prepared to support teachers through the MLT, including those without M-level credits? • Oxford University have their own selection criteria for Masters students – would OCL ( i.e. schools) have additional criteria, in order to apply for school funding? • What extra implications are there for schools in the first two years to start the scheme? E.g. Organising school-based coaches.

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