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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
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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