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GTC Scotland Review of the Professional Standards

GTC Scotland Review of the Professional Standards. February 2012. Reviewing the Standards-the context. GTCS move towards independence (April 2012) Teaching Scotland’s Future (Donaldson report) Work of the National Partnership Groups Advancing Professionalism in Teaching (McCormac Report)

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GTC Scotland Review of the Professional Standards

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  1. GTC Scotland Review of the Professional Standards February 2012

  2. Reviewing the Standards-the context • GTCS move towards independence (April 2012) • Teaching Scotland’s Future (Donaldson report) • Work of the National Partnership Groups • Advancing Professionalism in Teaching (McCormac Report) • Professional Update

  3. Teaching Scotland’s Future Recommendation 36: The Professional Standards need to be revised to create a coherent, overarching framework and enhanced with practical illustrations of the standards. This overall framework should reflect a reconceptualised model of teacher professionalism

  4. National Partnership Group – sub group 1 More rigorous selection to ITE courses Reconceptualised model for early phase of teacher education Proposals on nature of degrees Focus of early phase work Effectiveness and impact of programmes

  5. National Partnership Group – sub group 2 • Develop proposals on how the balance of professional learning can continue to shift to more collaborative, sustained approaches, centred on self-evaluation and outcomes for children. • Develop guidance on how teachers and schools can more clearly identify the intended outcomes of CPD in relation to teachers’ learning and how this can be evaluated more directly, including through professional review and development processes

  6. Develop proposals for models that will ensure that online CPD becomes part of the blended, tailored approach to CPD for all teachers. • Develop proposals for how priority areas can be systematically identified and promoted within systems for professional learning at national, local authority, school and individual levels. • Develop proposals for building greater accreditation and Masters level credit into continuing professional development. • Develop proposals for gaining improved clarity in relation to, and impact from, mentoring across the teacher education system.

  7. National Partnership Group: sub group 3 – Leadership • Development of clear, progressive educational leadership pathways • Evaluation of the impact of routes to achieving the Standard for Headship • Scheme for national leaders of education • Virtual college of school leadership

  8. Agreed principles in the review of the standards • Simultaneous review • Coherent, overarching framework • Professional values and personal commitment, professional skills and abilities and professional knowledge and understanding remain central • SfR – remain the benchmark for teacher competence in Scotland • The Standard for Initial Registration and the Standard for Full registration reviewed jointly • Enhanced focus on leadership across all standards • Sustainability at the heart of the standards • Process of learning and teaching • Linked to the work of Teaching Scotland’s Future National Partnership Groups

  9. Sustainability • Sub-Group to explore, examine and promote the wider concepts, principles and practices of sustainability through the Standards framework.

  10. Plan for review

  11. Timescale for review • Initial meetings to gather early thinking (17/11 – Local Authority Induction Managers’ Seminar, 23/11 - Accomplished Teaching Strategy Group, 28/11 - National SQH Steering Group) • Initial meeting of steering group, to clarify purpose of review, core principles and possible participation in sub-groups (January 2012) • Initial meetings of writing groups, to look at current content and agree revisions (February / March 2012) • Period of writing and review, liaising across sub groups as appropriate (February / March 2012) • Further meeting of steering group, to review progress (April 2012) • Further writing and review, as required (April / May 2012) • Formal consultation process (May 2012) • Final writing stage (June – August 2012) • Final agreement by steering group (August 2012) • Publication of revised Professional Standards (Autumn 2012)

  12. Key questions • Do we need two separate standards for SITE / SFR, or should this be one standard? • Do we require a further standard for active registration? • Should we be considering the development of a standard for leadership or headship? • Do we require practical illustrations of the standards?

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