1. Working together with Oxford Education Deanery…. ….. to build professional capital

2. The best schools have the best teachers  Attract the best entrants  Keep the best entrants  Accelerate teachers’ capacity for improvement  Develop their abilities to teach and coach others

3. Why this idea?  External  The Schools White Paper: The Importance of Teaching  Hargreaves and Fullan: Building Professional Capital  Internal  Oxford Education Deanery  Building a community of professional practice

4. An enhanced M.Sc. In Learning and Teaching from Oxford  Maximise the impact of new research on teaching  Provide the opportunity for teachers to gain an MSc. in Learning and Teaching  Motivate and retain excellent teachers  Provide cross-school support to such teachers and their school based mentors  Contribute to building communities of learners within and across OCL schools

5. What is the MLT?  A professional development masters.  Focused on learning and teaching in schools  rooted in a dialectic between research and practice.  4 themes:  Teachers and learners;  Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment;  Responding to pupils;  Schools, equity and achievement.

6. Existing MLT Course structure  Designed to follow M-level PGCE, so a taught year followed by development project (Years 2 and 3)  Year 2 – 5 weekends; 10K words  Year 3 – 2 weekends; 20 K words  No M-level credits? Initial taught year, mirroring PGCE work(Year 1)  Year 1 – 4 weekends: 2 x 5K words  http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/courses/msc- learning-teaching/final-year-project/mlt- poster-gallery/ http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/courses/msc- learning-teaching/final-year-project/mlt- poster-gallery/

7. Enhancing the MLT for schools  Support from schools:  Funding  Time off for study  Presentations at staff meetings  A Kentish MAT sending 8 staff on the course, from 2 schools (including the director)  Insisting on school-wide topics  Not forbidding teachers to discuss issues of teaching and learning!

8. Enhanced OCL MLT Pre-Year ( Known in OUDE as Part 1) YEAR 1 ( Known in OUDE as Part 2) YEAR 2 (Known as Part 3 at OUDE) YEAR 3 The purpose of this is achievement of 60M credits. Participants work on an issue in school/OCL in Action learning set Meet 3 X per year (once/term), with coordinator AND/OR Year 3 colleagues as coaches. Education Deanery conference Join MLT, working in current groups. Topics negotiated with school/OCL. Meet 2 x per year to discuss progress / Meet with 2nd group 2 X year Education Deanery conference Working on their R&D dissertations. Topics negotiated with school/OCL Meet 2 X per year Submission in September (Yr 3) Education Deanery conference Working with other professionals across OCL to increase the role of research evidence making a difference in schools:  Teaching adults  Implementing their research  Measuring impact of interventions Meeting 6 X year Working with first group as coaches Collaboration across the partnership Education Deanery conference

10. What’s the evidence that this will work? Research criteria for effective CPD OCL/MLT model Using specialist advisors and external experts Teachers will be supported by research- informed university-based lecturers Collaborative enquiry and structured peer support OCL will provide a series of support networks, from school, to OCL links, to the MLT small groups. These will encourage professional dialogue. Exploring why things do and don’t work By working on thematically linked but distinctive issues, OCL/MLT teachers will be able to compare and contrast each other’s experiences. Challenging prevailing discourses MLT provides a range of readings to enable OCL/MLT teachers to critique some existing discourses. Learning how to learn from looking MLT provides guidance in a range of research techniques: pupil observation; teacher observation; interviewing; dialogue analysis; analysis of school data.

11. How it could work  A 2 year masters currently costs £5,200 + (full time Masters cost £7,500)  Each of the partners makes a commitment to achieve the benefits.  OU will provide bursaries for qualifying teachers.  Schools contribute £1,000 of MLT fees for each of the 2 years, plus minimum 1 day study time/year.  Teachers pay the remaining fees.  OCL will support the enhancement provision, of c.£3,000/year.  Currently seeking sponsors for the annual conference  Potential research funding may also contribute.

12. For discussion  Do we agree in principle with the proposal?  Are we committed to financially supporting the scheme and to what extent?  How are we prepared to support teachers through the MLT, including those without M-level credits?  Oxford University have their own selection criteria for Masters students – would OCL ( i.e. schools) have additional criteria, in order to apply for school funding?  What extra implications are there for schools in the first two years to start the scheme? E.g. Organising school-based coaches.