1. Welcome to our Teacher Education Conference 26th June 2017
Dr Jo Harris

2. Housekeeping
Refreshments
Toilets
Fire alarm/exits

3. Purpose
To further strengthen the partnership between the University and schools and to enhance the ITT-related roles of staff in our partnership schools.
To provide opportunities to consider key issues in teacher education and appropriate implementation of Government documentation relating to ITT.

4. The Good Teacher Training Guide 2017
Loughborough is placed 2nd best of all HE-led ITT providers and 6th best of all providers in England (including SCITTs, two of which have student numbers lower than 10). 
These positions take into account the qualifications of our entrants, Ofsted grades and training outcomes.

5. Programme 9.30-9.40am Welcome; Introduction
am Experiences of being mentored and experiences of mentoring
am Bridging the GPS gap
am Break
Helping trainees to recognise and evidence impact of teaching on learning 
pm Lunch
pm ITT Co-ordinators: Arkwright Room
pm Subject Mentors: Mathematics: Pascal Room; Physical Education: Brunel/Murdoch Room
3.30pm Refreshments; Depart

6. Reverse quiz If X is the answer, what is the question?
Example: if Wimbledon is the answer, what is the question?

7. Possible answers! A district of SW London
Location of Wimbledon tennis championships
Home to the Wombles
Name of disbanded football team (became MK Dons in 2004)
Where Jo Harris was born

8. Reverse quiz
If Michael Gove is the answer,
what is the question?

10. Changes since 2014: Big picture
Cameron
Brexit
May
General Election
May I? May(be)?

11. Changing picture in schools
Academisation
Budgets/funding
Expansion of free/grammar schools
Changes to assessment (GCSE/A levels/progress 8)

12. UCET Manifesto: Teacher training, supply and retention
All teachers should be properly qualified.
Teaching should be an all Master’s qualified profession.
All teachers should have access to up to date research findings and be equipped to be skilled practitioners.
Simplify the routes into teaching.
Provide recruitment incentives in areas of social deprivation and acute teacher shortage.
Introduce retention incentives (e.g. writing off student loans after 7 years)
Target retention incentives in areas of deprivation.

13. Changes since 2014: Closer picture

14. Plus….

15. Dr Dave Hewitt, Programme Director for PGCE Mathematics

16. Our outstanding campus
Largest single site green campus in the UK

17. Bridging the GPS gap
GPS: highly evaluated by trainees, external examiners and Ofsted; a strength of our course.
Nationally, coherence is an issue.
Working towards developing strong links between the generic and subject-specific components of the course both within the university and in schools.

18. GPS task
How would you describe the connections/links between the professional studies programme and the subject training programme(s) in your school?
What do you currently do to connect/link the professional studies programme and the subject training programme(s) in your school?
Could you do more and, if so, what?
Who should be responsible for making these connections/links and, if so, what could they be asked to do?

19. School perspectives
Claire Greaves, ITT Co-ordinator, Sir Jonathan North Community College
Gareth Summers, ITT Co-ordinator, Rushcliffe School