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HE-based Teacher Education: Threats and Benefits to the Public Service

This article discusses the challenges and advantages of Higher Education-based Teacher Education, exploring placement difficulties, benefits to schools, university contributions, coalition policies, and the importance of systematic phonics teaching. It also highlights the three routes to wisdom in teaching: experience, imitation, and reflection.

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HE-based Teacher Education: Threats and Benefits to the Public Service

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  1. ‘HE based Teacher Education – a front line public service under threat? UCU: 2nd November

  2. Main routes into teaching • PGCE • Three or four year undergraduate • School-centred (SCITT) • Employment-based routes (inc GTP, Teach 1s).

  3. ‘HE based Teacher Education – a front line public service under threat? UCU: 2nd November

  4. Placement difficulties • Inspections • Expertise • Logistical • NQT responsibilities • Staff changes • Workload

  5. Benefits to schools • Recruitment • New & fresh ideas • University expertise • CPD • Other links

  6. ‘HE based Teacher Education – a front line public service under threat? UCU: 2nd November

  7. University contribution • Space to share & reflect • Broader range of settings & experiences • Access to resources (library & ICT) • Scope to build through CPD, Master’s etc

  8. ‘HE based Teacher Education – a front line public service under threat? UCU: 2nd November

  9. Coalition policies • Shift from ‘teacher training colleges’ into school • Expansion of Teach 1st • Higher entry qualifications • Systematic synthetic (and only systematic synthetic) phonics • Opportunities to study at master’s level

  10. Gove speech ‘…we will reform teacher training to shift trainee teachers out of college and into the classroom. We will end the arbitrary bureaucratic rule which limits how many teachers can be trained in schools, shift resources so that more heads can train teachers in their own schools… Teaching is a craft and it is best learnt as an apprentice observing a master craftsman or woman. Watching others, and being rigorously observed yourself as you develop, is the best route to acquiring mastery in the classroom’.

  11. ‘HE based Teacher Education – a front line public service under threat? UCU: 2nd November

  12. ‘HE based Teacher Education – a front line public service under threat? UCU: 2nd November

  13. Systematic phonics Children cannot read to learn before they have learned to read. Without that secure foundation even the most gifted and innovative teacher will struggle to inspire and inform. We know that, whatever else may work, teaching children to read using the tried and tested method of systematic synthetic phonics can dramatically reduce illiteracy. So we will make sure that teacher training is improved so every new primary teacher - and every teacher in place - is secure in their grasp of phonics teaching. We will ensure teachers have the best reading materials to help embed great phonics teaching.

  14. ‘HE based Teacher Education – a front line public service under threat? UCU: 2nd November

  15. Three routes to wisdom • Experience (bitterest) • Imitation (easiest) • Reflection (noblest)

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