Equipping Tutors for the Future Are you ready?

1. Equipping Tutors for the FutureAre you ready? Update on the Professionalisation of Post 16 Tutors in the Lifelong Learning Sector Vikki Trace

2. Background • Learning and Skills Act 2000 • Success for all – 2001 • OFSTED report on ITT 2003 • DfES (Standards Unit) – 2004 • White Paper - 2005

3. Equipping our Tutors for the Future Key Points from the document • Introduces the concept of Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) status • Reforms teacher training – Initial Teaching Award (ITALS) leading to QTLS, with intermediate awards • Requires all new and unqulified teachers to register with the IfL from September 2007 • Introduces the Licence to Practise, maintained through demonstrating good standing - including an annual commitment to CPD

4. The White Paper…..Further Education: Raising Skills, Improving Life Chances • All teaching practitioners to fulfil, at the very least, 30 hoursof CPD a year, with a reduced amount for part time teachers, and with similar expectations of managers and leaders • Teaching staff to maintain a portfolio of CPD that shows evidence of industrial/subject updating, including membership of appropriate professional bodies, development of skills in subject teaching, the effective application of e-learning techniques, application of diversity and equal opportunity principles, and use of learner feedback to improve performance • Teaching practitioners to be professionally registered in order to maintain their licence to practise.

5. Professionalism means….. “Nobody expects a doctor, accountant or lawyer to rely for decades solely on the knowledge, understanding and approach which was available at the time when they began their career. Good professionals are engaged in a journey of self-improvement, always ready to reflect on their own practice in the light of other approaches and to contribute to the development of others by sharing their best practice and insights. They learn from what works.” David Blunkett, Professional Development: Support for Teaching and Learning, February 2000

6. Key Players • DFES • Responsible for Statute • Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) – Sector Skills Council for Lifelong Learning • Developed new standards • Developing the Qualifications Framework • Help-line for tutors – 020 7936 5798 • Helpline@lifelonglearninguk.org • Institute for Learning • Confer/revoke the License to Practise • Maintaining the Membership Management Database • Monitoring the recording of CPD • LSC • 2010 – only funding courses run by appropriately qualified teachers

7. A Framework for Post-16 Learning and Teaching • Reform of ITT across Lifelong Learning Sector – 2007 • Setting new Professional Standards for those teaching in the Lifelong Learning sector • Development of new Qualifications framework for tutors leading to QTLS status • Development of License to Practise – QTLS status • New CPD framework for tutors

8. QTLS – a teaching workforce fit for purpose • From Sept 2007 all new and unqualified tutors in the LLUK Sector to embark on the “Initial” Award as the beginning of a learning pathway towards QTLS • Key Purpose – to provide high quality teaching to help ensure effective opportunities for learning and to enable learners to achieve • To contribute to the parity of esteem between traditional teaching in schools and the wider educational sector • To provide recognition of professionalism for all teachers/tutors and trainers in the sector

9. Threshold qualification Individual Learning Plan Subject Mentor Literacy, Numeracy and e-skills needs identified and addressed Minimum level three 30 guided learning hours Additional time on observed practice Up to 5 years to complete Core and optional elements within a credit based framework Minimum level 5 Minimum 8 observations License to Practise New ITT Qualifications – Sept 2007 Initial Award • Intermediate Awards • Specific limited teaching roles at level 3/4 QTLS Status Qualified appropriate to role

10. New CPD Framework • The tutor at the centre of the processes, taking responsibility for reflecting on practice and identifying development needs • An annual tariff for demonstrating good standing • A balance between formal and informal CPD activities • Definitions of appropriate CPD activity and, where appropriate, the use of levels • Recording requirements through the Membership Management Database with the maintenance of an evidence base (Portfolio, CPD Log, On-line Record)

11. Qualified Teacher – Learning and Skills The Learning and Skills teacher, tutor or trainer • values all learners individually and equally • is committed to lifelong learning and professional development • and strives for continuous improvement through reflective practice

12. QTLS – Are you Ready? • What are your teaching qualifications? • Keep a Portfolio/Record of your CPD • Keep up to date in your subject specialism • Attend staff development opportunities • Apply to join the CPD pilot project • Register with the Institute for Learning (www.ifl.ac.uk)

13. Contact Vikki Trace Staff Development Manager (Continuous Professional Development and Teacher Education) vikki.trace@derbyshire.gov.uk 01629-580000 ext 5743