Iain Hulland

1. Iain Hulland

2. Implications for Employability:A School Perspective Iain Hulland Alder Grange C&T School and Sixth Form

3. Where We Agree • The importance of this issue to our profession’s future. • The need to recruit and retain highest calibre of teachers • The best qualified in personal, professional and intellectual terms • Teachers and students as role models and advocates to attract the right people • A demanding, stimulating ITTE and CPD curriculum • A professional experience that inspires

4. Where I Hope We Agree • Widening anticipation not to include MORE people, but the RIGHT people • Working on the assumption that we want only outstanding and good teachers in our schools • Knowing that teachers have many ordinary qualities – but in extraordinary combinations • Understanding that not all those people who COULD be great teachers realise it, and we have to find, teach and nurture them.

5. Our new context • New Government policy • Secretary of State’s “theology” • Teaching Schools • School Direct • SCITTs • National College and Teaching Agency merger • Charlie Taylor’s views

6. Teaching Schools- the “Big 6” (Really 8) • Initial Teacher Training and Education • Post Qualification Continuing Professional Development • Research and Development • Talent Spotting and Management • Including Specialist Leaders of Education (SLEs) • Leadership Development • School-to-School Support • System Development and Improvement

7. Redefining the HEI-School Relationship • Creating a new partnership • Schools and teachers leading on Professional Practice and guardians of QTS • Universities as: • guardians of PGCE • creating an “M” Level profession • Subject Knowledge sharing • Research and Development • The “independent eye, above the fray” we need

8. How Could This Work? • Evidence from students: they value this concept of partnership • Learning the professional craft from “apprentice masters” • Being part of a school “team” • Enjoying membership of a University • Wanting the intellectual challenge of M Level work • An understanding that being a teacher is not what you DO, it is what you ARE.

9. Experience, Opportunity, Employability, Retention: How? • Beginning with our pupils/sixth formers: Tomorrow’s Teachers • Schools and HEIs recruiting and selecting together in overt partnership • Actively promoting the profession – going after the people we want and being specific about their qualities • Packages for possible recruits to support application preparation • Redesigning the ITTE Programme: • EYFS, Primary, Secondary, Post-16, PRU, Special Ed • Child Development • High Quality subject knowledge

10. The Desired Impact? • Signalling the importance of our profession • Celebrating the marriage between professional practice and intellectual rigour • Signalling the relevance of the training Programme thereby enhancing commitment • Placing a premium on the right personal qualities to be an outstanding teacher • “Growing our own” from within schools/alliances and beyond regardless of background

11. The Desired Impact? • Using the responsibilities placed on Teaching Schools, SCITTs and School Direct partnerships to find and support this “new” talent • Teachers, trainees and sixth formers as “champions” and living proof of the “quality” on offer • Using schools’ emerging role as “gatekeeper” and “access point” to the profession positively