Transcript Schools Direct Information and discussion

School Direct
Information and discussion
PORTSWOOD TEACHING SCHOOL ALLIANCE
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Background
 School Direct is a new programme proposed in the
DfE ITT Strategy paper to be introduced 2012/2013
 Schools Direct is intended to help schools take a
leading role in ITT where they can offer ITT places
and work with accredited ITT providers to deliver
training.
 Priority will be given to subjects with the greatest
need
Training Places
 The School Direct Training programme open to all
graduates and funded by tuition fees paid by the
trainee, who may receive a bursary from the
Teaching Agency
 The School Direct Training Programme, salaried,
which is an employment based route into teaching
for highly qualified graduates with three or more
years career experience. The trainee is employed as
an unqualified teacher by a school. The Teaching
Agency provides funding, which the school can use to
subsidise the trainee's salary and/or training
Difference between School Direct and GTP
 School Direct salaried training programme replaces
the GTP, which will close an there will no longer be a
supernumerary requirement as with current GTP
 Consider how this would affect your school? How
would you use an unqualified teacher? How do we
train them?
School Direct is designed to:
 Give schools ability to influence the way that ITT is delivered,
creating more school-led training programmes that better
meet the needs of schools and trainees.
 Enable schools to recruit and select trainees that are most
suitable for them and their partnerships needs, with the
expectation that these trainees will go on to work in the group
of schools they trained in.
 Provide choice by enabling schools to negotiate with their
chosen provider as to how they wish to use their School Direct
places. The School Direct Training Programme also enables a
school to negotiate their choice of accredited ITT provider and
the way in which training delivered.
Requesting and receiving places
 Schools need to register interest by 7th Sept (this has now been
extended), we have done this on behalf of the Alliance
 Schools will then request places in specific phases and
subjects, this year the TA will ask schools to identify the
accredited ITT provider with which they wish to work. Schools
can use different providers for different subjects.
 Accredited ITT provider remains accountable for quality of
training, assessed through Ofsted ITT Inspection Framework,
and for ensuring that training needs meet the criteria.
 All requests should be submitted through a lead school, the
lead school is the one to which the TA will allocate places and
it is responsible for ensuring that School Direct criteria for
places is met
Timescales
 Timescales are continually changing but in general
 September register interest and request places by
phase and subject
 Mid October allocations agreed and announced
 End of October Recruitment opens for schools
Criteria for allocations
 School quality. The Ofsted rating of the lead school will be a
key determinant of both whether the requests for places are
successful and to what degree it is met in full.
 They would like School Direct to stimulate alliance building
for Teaching Schools.
 A school in Special Measures may not request School Direct
places.
 If a school requires improvement it may be possible to be
involved in the delivery of ITT dependant upon subjects or age
range and where the lead school and accredited provider will
need to be confident that trainee will not be disadvantaged.
Trainee quality
 Degree of 2.1 or above
 High priority for 2012/2013 Physics, Maths,
Chemistry and Modern languages
 Other priorities are: primary and other Ebacc
subjects (English, history, geography, biology and
classics)
 These priorities are reflected in bursary and funding
levels for School Direct places
Recruitment and cohort size
 Capacity will be discussed with lead schools to ensure
appropriate allocation but no automatic penalties for under
recruitment will be applied this year
 TA encourages requests for several places in a subject. Groups
of schools requesting a regular supply of places are likely to
promote the development of high quality practice and
sustainable relationships between ITT providers and schools
 Self funded places (salaried) do not need to be agreed but TA
needs to be informed
 It is important that all requests and acceptance of places are a
realistic statement of schools’ capacity to participate in School
Direct because if schools retain allocated places and they are
unilled this can affect future allocation decisions.
Finding an ITT provider
 School Direct schools choose which accredited
provider to work with, negotiate how training is
structured and agree how funding will be divided
between the school and provider.
 Schools can choose HEI or school led accredited
provider to work with
 Provider is responsible for recommendation of the
award of QTS
 Roles and responsibilities for training should be set
out in a partnership agreement between schools and
the ITT provider
Secondary subject training
 Any ITT providers approached by schools to train
and assess trainees in secondary subjects, outside
their allocated ITT portfolio, are advised to adopt
risk mitigations exactly as when requesting an
expansion into new subjects for mainstream
provision
 ITT providers cannot train and assess trainees in a
phase or age range outside their allocated ITT
portfolio
Recruiting School Direct trainees
 Schools can recruit locally through own recruitment
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process, work with their ITT provider to use its
marketing and recruitment process or use a
combination of the two.
Recruitment processes must be open, transparent
and subject to scrutiny by Ofsted
The recruitment period must be long enough to be
fair but should pretty much be completed by January
From September 2013 the skills test must be passed
before starting their course
Registration and booking system is on DfE website
School Direct Training Programme Salaried
 Is only for high quality graduates with at least 3 years
working experience.
 If a school selects a candidate that the partner ITT
provider does not wish to take then the provider can
decline to take them
 Schools should also ensure that candidates are aware
of all fees
 Information on School Direct has been signposted to
potential applicants in the TA Graduate recruitment
Brochure
School Experience Programme
 This is for secondary schools to have prospective ITT
applicants in school for up to 10 days to gain insight
into the role and responsibilities of a teacher.
 It targets high quality graduates and undergraduates
who are interested in teaching maths, physics,
chemistry and MfL
Funding
 ITT providers register trainee
 Tuition fees paid by trainee who will be eligible for
the standard student support package, including
training bursaries, tuition fee loans and scholarships
where eligible
 Funding for salaried School Direct will be funded
through TA to subsidise salary and training costs.
 Funding ranges from £14,000 for primary non
specialist to £20,99 for a High Priority subject in a
school with high FSM
Training
 School and provider should train the trainee in
accordance with their partnership agreement.
Pros
 High quality teachers trained to suit specific schools
 Quality assurance of training programme
 Opportunities for schools to use the trainee in a
teaching capacity
 Ability to have teachers trained in subjects or phases
relevant to the Alliance
 Further opportunities for partnership development
working
Cons
 Schools could be out of pocket if supernumerary
 Unqualified teachers could be teaching classes
 How do we quality assure that they are getting the
best training if the above is happening?
 The advertising, recruiting, selection and deciding
which schools carry out training is exciting but who
does it?