Teacher Education in Lifelong Learning Plymouth University 3 rd May 2013

1. Teacher Education in Lifelong LearningPlymouth University3rd May 2013

2. URLs for meeting Teacher Educator UK http://teachereducatoruk.wikispaces.com/ ‘FE Advice’ (LSIS) http://tinyurl.com/bu538ug FE Guild- http://www.feguild.info/ IfL and QTLShttp://www.ifl.ac.uk/cpd/qtls-atls/how-to-apply Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/cavtl

3. Agenda 11.00Welcome, Intro & Objectives Jim Crawley, Bath Spa University – Network Convenor Denise Summers, Plymouth University 11.05Network member / news update ITE News • Workforce Regulations; New ITE qualifications; ITE funding; IfL and QTLS; Fee Awards; FE Guild; LSIS; CAVTL - 45 minutes max Research and development news • Round table members’ research and development news • LSIS ITE Phase 2 projects • TELL events – Huddersfield; London • New articles / research by … 12.30Lunch 13.00 Showcasing members' research 14.30Meetings / events for 2013/14 15.00Close

4. News – ITE / Other For regular news and updates see Teacher Educator UKhttp://teachereducatoruk.wikispaces.com/ • Workforce Regulations – likely to go. • New ITE qualifications wiki and ‘FE Advice’ (LSIS) http://tinyurl.com/bu538ug • ITE funding– Funding update (UCET/ACETT/SWCETT etc.) • FE Guild - http://www.feguild.info/ £18.8m funding for each of next two years Implementation plan summary on teacher ed site and FE Guild site.

5. News – FE Guild Key outcomes and proposals for the Guild are that: • It should focus on aspects associated with professionalism, including defining workforce qualifications and standards, continuous professional development, research into teaching and learning, sharing best practice and leadership, management and governance. • It also needs to play a key role in addressing such issues as improving the dual professionalism and currency of the workforce, by, for example, promoting links with businesses and communities. • It should be based on having a relatively small executive team (circa 32 people) and rely, where appropriate and cost effective, on partnership, commissioning and other forms of cross sector work to fulfil its mission, whilst still retaining sufficient expertise to act as a genuine intelligent customer. • It should be set up as a Company Limited by Guarantee and seek to register as a charity. To ensure real sector ownership, the company members should be the AoC, AELP (also covering third sector in conjunction with TSNLA) and, representing the Local Authority providers, the Association of Adult Education and Training Organisations, (who operate under the name of HOLEX), in consultation with LEAFEA.

6. News – FE Guild Key outcomes and proposals for the Guild are that: • There should be very strong sector involvement in deciding the priorities and work of the Guild, via robust sector-wide, including practitioner, engagement and consultation processes. • As a guiding principle, the Guild should aim to encompass everyone working in the sector providers, although resource constraints and other factors might result in there needing to be an initial focus on teaching and learning staff and those directly supporting learner outcomes. • The decision as to whether there should also be some form of individual recognition route should be deferred until the Guild is fully operational and is better able to articulate the advantages and potential disadvantages of such a scheme. • The Guild should adopt a phased approach to funding, initially based on a direct grant to ensure a successful setup and initial operation of the Guild, but progressively moving to a levy-based approach. Further self-funding opportunities could be considered for later years. • Added note .. bye bye Excellence Gateway

7. News – ITE / other • IfL and QTLS – update at http://www.ifl.ac.uk/cpd/qtls-atls/how-to-apply • LSIS ITE development Phase 1 projects– Ecorys commissioned to draw together learning from these projects. • LSIS ITE development Phase 2 projects – Ongoing • Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning See http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/cavtl Report –”It’s about work” PowerPoint on teacher ed

8. News - research • Huddersfield University / TELL conference – Friday 28thJune • TELL / BERA / IoE – Friday 12th July - £20.00 For info on all join TELL network (email Jim j.crawley@bathspa.ac.uk ) • Articles by TELL members: Till vol 4, 2 – Ben Beaumont; Martyn Robbins and Robin Simmons; Pete Boyd; Denise Robinson; Alison Iredale and Kevin Orr; Anne-Marie Bathmaker; Ron Thompson; Liz Atkins; Robin Simmons and Ron Thompson – eds (Special Edition of RPCE) • By others: Hodgson and Spears (x2); Rob Lawy

9. Network and Events 2013/14 • Reminder of objectives / terms of reference • Stay as we are (i.e. independent network - not ‘constituted’) • Website – volunteer editors so far for (Scottish section; Updater for current research / big bibliography) • Volunteers for venues for 2013/14 include Canterbury Christchurch University; Newcastle College; Teeside University; Stroud College; University of Bedfordshire

10. Joint research 1 Idea from Martyn Walker (Huddersfield) and Sue Cordell (Sheffield Hallam) • Continuation of existing ‘trainee story’ and ‘teacher educator story’ research. • Stories about experiences of different qualifications (Simmons & Walker 2013) • Interviews with teacher trainees and teacher educators

11. Joint research 2 Idea from Sai Loo (Institute of Education) and Jim Crawley (Bath Spa University) Teacher Educators: Sources and Application of Knowledge and Identities- Suggested research questions: • How do teacher educators (in the LLS) train teachers? • What sources of knowledge do they draw from? • How do they use the knowledge in the training of teachers? • What continuous professional development activities are they involved in? • How do they view themselves professionally? A mixed method approach is to include questionnaire via technologies such as SurveyMonkey, interviews via technologies such as Skype. Included in the interviews will be a biographical element in which participants will be asked to describe their journeys as teacher educators alongside answering the research questions. Free Event at IoE 12thJuly contactS.Loo@ioe.ac.uk