1. Association for Partnership CPD – links to partnership
in Teacher Education
CPD – links to partnership
Dr d’Reen Struthers

2. Working in ITE partnership
Partnership staff often work in isolation
Collaboration offers the sharing of good
practice
Often positioned in HEIs as engaging
managerial partnerships
There is a growing global research base
for partnership practices
Certainly now becoming more than just
school placements

3. The changing face of partnership
Both Schools and HEIs are now
working in multi-agency partnerships
Tensions continue between HEI and
school-led routes to QTS
Some tensions arise from views
about what types of knowledge are
necessary for preparing teachers
from both schools and HEIs
Tensions about QA as the
recommending QTS partner still is
responsible

4. CPD - Partnership matters
in HEIs the tension is often
between income generation (MAs)
and enhancing school
improvement for quality/quantity
placements
Views about school improvement
and school management not
universal with implications for QA
in ITE
Challenges of changing skill base

5. Translating across borders
Changing skills for liaison tutors:
Different skills already developed in schools:
mentor/coaching for NQTS,
GTP mentoring
Previous work as Teacher
tutor assessors for QTS
MTL requirements
Resourcing for staff development in HEIs as pace of change in schools overtakes change in HEIs

6. Influences from other models:
PDS (Holmes 2005)
American Professional Development schools
Use teaching fellows
MA students
NZ ‘Normal school’ linked to ITE
seconded school liaison staff who
across school and university.
PLS (Struthers 2009)
Roehampton University’s Professional Learning School
Tutors move out to schools with students and work alongside teachers to deconstruct practice.

7. Notion of ‘blending’
Vocationally based model linked to university depts with professors and readers offering critical edge to beginning teachers (practice in Australia)
Schools often sceptical of skill-base of university tutors…when teachers reflect on new roles and skills they have developed in schools.
Challenge posed for HEI staff with speed of change and adaption in schools

8. Looking ahead – Change management in HEIs??
Shifting view of teachers as consumers of knowledge to now being knowledge producers
Resources for staff to work within a ‘school improvement’ agenda
Impact of MTL developments for sustaining pedagogical partnership

9. What does APTE offer?
A national network and professional association which
encourages, promotes and supports
professional discourse relating to
partnerships
provides a forum to share good
practice, update & lead development
advocates and champions partnership
within and beyond ITE
encourages research and staff support

10. The value of local and grass-root discussion
Addressing the needs of
partnership staff (admin and
academic)
Opportunity to consider
different models and to inquire
into other ways of meeting the
current challenges of centrally
led policy changes.

11. Annual Conferences 2008 Quality and Capacity in School Partnership
2009 Partnership Landscapes
2010 Extending partnerships

12. For further details and to be kept informed of our conferences please contact d’Reen:
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