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Explore the evolution of university partnerships in teacher education, their value and changing landscape, benefiting from collaborative models and shared resources, guided by Prof. Gordon Kirk's insights. Delve into the crucial aspects of intellectual capital, quality assurance, and administrative infrastructure for productive partnerships.
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Partnership : Where Now? Professor Gordon Kirk Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers APTE/TEAN 13 February 2012
Plan • How did we get here? • Why Change? • Where do we go now?
The Value of University Partnership • Strong expertise in teacher education and CPD • Intellectual capital and society • Awards and other forms of recognition • Quality assurance • Resource development • Administrative infrastructure
The Ladder of Partnership Collaborative Partnership HEI-led partnership: focus on ITE “Separatist partnership”: focus on placement Hostility
Collaborative Partnership • ITE embedded in other activities • Complementarity • Reciprocal benefits
Why Change? • Growth of non-university routes • Erosion of complementarity • Blurring of school- and HEI-based • Government education agenda • Marketisation • The new research agenda • The analogy with medicine
Where now? Collaborative partnership HEI-led: focus on ITE “separatist partnership”: focus on placement
Learning Partnerships 1 • Agreed aims and strategies • School effectiveness • ITE • CPD • Research • Shared staffing • Shared power • Shared resources
Learning Partnerships 2 • Shared conception of teaching as an evidence-based profession • A culture of evidence-based negotiation • A research and development agenda
School HEI
Separatist partnership School HEI
Collaborative Partnership School HEI
Learning partnership HEI School