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Explore the revised teacher professional standards, implications for schools, and action planning steps for effective implementation. Understand how staffing structures and performance management align with the standards.
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Agenda • Aims and objectives • Background and context • Link with staffing structures and CPD • The Standards in more detail • Implications for schools, leaders and reviewers • Action planning and next steps
Objectives • Understand the new professional standards and their implications; • Understand how the standards inter-relate with other national workforce development initiatives; • Explore the implications for school leaders, reviewers and CPD co-ordinators; • Develop a framework for an action plan.
High Need YS Specialist Targeted Universal TYS Extended Schools Children’s Centres Low Need 0 To 19 Overall goal: a seamless service for children and young people
The Quartet of Initiatives National Agreement Staffing Structure Review The New Teacher Revised Performance Management Revised Professional Standards
NQT (Q) Core (C) Post-threshold (P) ET (E) AST (A) AST ET* UPS UPS TLR MPS TLR MPS NQT Staffing Structure Performance Management Succession Planning
Introduction to Ms SmithersActivity 1 • What structures and culture will retain new teachers in the profession? • Convince Ms Smithers that you can offer her professional development • What do you need to do in your own school?
Recruitment and RetentionActivity 2 • What will the school that wants to appoint Ms Smithers need to do to retain her?
An Overview of the Standards • Constant • Cumulative • Progression beyond the core is by application
Activity 3.1 Getting the standards sorted • Sort the contents of the envelope by standard and “interpretation for a maths teacher”
Progression Through the Standards Activity 3.2 • Consider the subsection “Teamwork and Collaboration” • Begin with standards C40 or C41 and map their progression through to A2 & A3. • Give concrete examples of what you would expect to see at each standard.
Implications for PM Reviewers and Induction Tutors - Activity 4 • What will PM Reviewers and Induction Tutors need in terms of: • Knowledge? • Skills? • Access?
What about the teacher who is not meeting their relevant standards? Activity 5 In your group briefly map out the course of action you would be likely to take. Discuss time lines.
Teachers Not Meeting the Standards • New standards – be realistic • Timescale for compliance, and possible consequences of failure – transparency • Support / CPD • Failure to meet standards in agreed timescale / failure to make reasonable progression capability procedures?
Ms Smithers; Expert PractitionerActivity 6 • Ms Smithers would like to be recognised as an expert practitioner (AST or ET) • Which route (AST or ET) would you recommend she take? • What areas should her professional development be focussed on? • What do you need to do to retain her? • Feedback
Part 6 – Summary ActivityActivity 7 • Harvey Balls exercise
The Impact on Staffing Structures • Understanding the impact of the Professional Standards on leadership structures
Old” Teacher – “New” TeacherActivity 7 • Use the Venn diagram to help you draw out what has changed contractually • Has this led to changed ways of working? • Is this reflected in job descriptions? • Is this reflected in changed relationships between classroom teachers, middle leaders and support staff?
Management Allowance – TLR MA TLR
Management Allowance – TLRActivity 8 • So what has changed? • Are your TLR holders operating differently? • Is this reflected in their job descriptions? • Are the implications for the relationship between Middle and Senior leadership?
Role DistinctionsActivity 9 • Bullet the key points that you would include in a presentation to Governors to explain • The implications of an AST post within the school staffing structure; and • The difference between ET, AST, TLR and Leadership
Another Way of Looking at the Standards • Developing professional and constructive relationships • Working within the law and frameworks • Professional knowledge and understanding • 3.i Pedagogic practice • 3.ii Promoting children and young people’s development and well-being • Professional skills • 4.i Planning and assessment • 4.ii Teaching • Developing practice
Prioritisation MatrixActivity 11 Easy Hard Low High How easy is it to do? What impact will it have?