1. Partnership : Where Now?
Professor Gordon Kirk
Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers
APTE/TEAN February 2012

2. Plan
How did we get here?
Why Change?
Where do we go now?

3. The Value of University Partnership
Strong expertise in teacher education and CPD
Intellectual capital and society
Awards and other forms of recognition
Quality assurance
Resource development
Administrative infrastructure

4. The Ladder of Partnership
Collaborative Partnership
HEI-led partnership: focus on ITE
“Separatist partnership”: focus on placement
Hostility

5. Collaborative Partnership
ITE embedded in other activities
Complementarity
Reciprocal benefits

6. Why Change? Growth of non-university routes Erosion of complementarity
Blurring of school- and HEI-based
Government education agenda
Marketisation
The new research agenda
The analogy with medicine

7. Where now? Collaborative partnership HEI-led: focus on ITE
“separatist partnership”: focus on placement

8. Learning Partnerships 1
Agreed aims and strategies
School effectiveness
ITE
CPD
Research
Shared staffing
Shared power
Shared resources

9. Learning Partnerships 2
Shared conception of teaching as an evidence-based profession
A culture of evidence-based negotiation
A research and development agenda

10. School
HEI

11. Separatist partnership
School
HEI

12. Collaborative Partnership
School
HEI

13. Learning partnership
HEI
School