School Direct – Key Features and Issues The Month Zero figure for 2014 is 269,216 members.   This means we need to recruit 15,774 members standstill in 2016. We can do this and we must aim for growth. Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016

Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016 Forms of ITT in England Broadly, there are five main forms of ITT in England: HEI-based training: traditional route based in – and led by – universities that now accounts for only around half of all ITT provision. School Direct: school-centred training led by schools. Assessment-only route: fast-track assessment for staff with significant prior experience of working with children and young people in an educational setting. School-centred initial teacher training: long standing school-based route in which dedicated training bodies take responsibly for training. Teach First: school-centred route for graduates focused on ‘challenging’ areas. Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016

Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016 School Direct Introduced by Coalition Government as it was felt that traditional HEI-based ITT route was not preparing teachers effectively for a working life in the classroom. School Direct – key features: schools select their own trainees; expectation (not a guarantee) that trainees will get a job in network of schools within which they have trained; schools have more control over the nature and form of training although they must adhere to national ITT standards; and schools have more control over how the funds available for training are spent. Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016

Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016 Partnerships School Direct is based on a partnership model. One school in the partnership is designated as the ‘lead school’ – often, but not always, a Teaching School. This school works with ‘partner’ schools in a School Direct network - these partnerships are often based on a commercial trading relationship. Schools are expected to join with an accredited training provider – this is usually a university but can be a SCITT training provider or similar. Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016

Types of School Direct Placement There are two forms of School Direct placement: School Direct (tuition fee): funded by tuition fees (usually via the Student Loans Company) paid for by the trainee. School Direct (salaried): trainees are employed as unqualified teachers during the course of their training and can be deployed in a similar way to all other unqualified teachers. This route is usually reserved for those with three or more year work experience. Across the system, ratio of tuition fee to salaried trainees is around 2:1. Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016

School Direct Qualifications All School Direct routes lead to QTS. Most also allow students to gain a PGCE. Not accurate therefore to contrast ‘PGCE’ training routes with School Direct as the latter is often based around a PGCE programme. Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016

Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016 School Direct - Issues Quality of the relationship between HEIs and partner schools. Quality of the training provided – based on the idea of teaching as a ‘craft’ only. School Direct partnerships often focused on ‘growing their own’ – ignore the need to develop teachers for the whole system. Capacity of schools to manage key ITT processes fairly and efficiently, particularly the recruitment and assessment of trainees. Workload burdens on existing staff – teachers often expected to undertake ITT-related duties in addition to their existing duties. Negotiating Secretaries' Briefing - January 2016