ITT National Context
 Conservative Manifesto
 Ambitions for school system reform: change in the centre of
gravity; decentralised improvement driven by schools –
outstanding schools, teachers and HTs – not the centre
 Changed funding for HE: fees going up; how keen will people
be to go to university? What will their expectations be when they
get there?
 ‘Fiscal constraint’: no money
 Curriculum in schools: what’s important and what’s not so
important
 Importance of subject teaching and subject knowledge:
secondary and primary
 Importance of high quality provision
How can change be introduced without putting the teaching
supply at risk?
 Bursary levels for shortage subject and for high quality
graduates: the positioning of the teaching profession as one
which the best quality graduates would want to join’ ( new
career structures for ‘Master Teachers’.
 Toughened up entry requirements
 Greater role for schools: SCITTS, Teaching Schools, Schools
Direct
 Specialism in maths and science and MTL in primary
encouraged
 Re frame GTP for career changers who will want to be
employed while they train.
 New OfSTED Inspection framework for ITT providers. Can only
be outstanding if partnership working is outstanding
 Importance of ‘Deep Partnership’ with measurable impacts of
pupil achievement.
School Direct Strategic Direction
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Overall increase in the number of places allocated to schools
Particular focus on increasing places allocated to primary schools
Continued focus on quality
Maintain the proportion of partnerships led by outstanding schools
Increase schools’ confidence and ability to commission and deliver, in
partnership with ITT providers, teacher training that fully meets their
needs
 Government want to:
 Expand existing School Direct partnerships/alliances
 Increase awareness of School Direct with all schools and providers
not yet involved
 Help build large, sustainable school partnerships
 Attract primary schools not yet involved in School Direct to become
involved, particularly outstanding primary schools
Current activity
 Letter from Charlie Taylor to Teaching Schools asking them to
increase their School Direct capacity through ‘affiliate
schools’
 Letter to outstanding lead schools asking them to expand
their partnerships
 Work with academy chains
SD Registration for 2014
 From 25 February schools register interest in School Direct
places for 2014
 A pre-requisite stage for all schools and to ask whether
they are registering places on behalf of a wider
partnership
as a lead school
or to join a partnership of schools
 Schools will be put on a mailing list and sent log in details to
request School Direct places
 Requests for places from June to September with decisions by
end of October
 Portal opens for applications in November
University
Groups/Alliances of Schools
 Validate and award
academic qualification
/QTS designed with
schools
 QA programmes
 Lead practice based
research
 Develop and provide
‘consultant level’ expertise
in subjects, phases and
pedagogy
 Assess requirement for new
teachers across the Alliance
 Commission HEI as partner in
training programme
 Create capacity to deliver high
quality ITT
 Bid for and receive ‘School Direct’
places
 Recruit high quality graduates
 Deploy outstanding teachers to
demonstrate excellent practice and
mentor across schools in the
alliance
Joint appointments, clinical professors, ITT
resources matched to relative contributions