This will include the government's proposals to reform
qualified teaching status, which will be outlined in a consultation tomorrow, and work to improve development for teachers in hard - to - reach areas.
The ATL's analysis discovered that 38 per cent of teachers, 10,800 people, were not in teaching a year after earning
their qualified teaching status (QTS).
Not exact matches
«Does he honestly think that either the
teaching profession or parents will be impressed that he is now an apparent convert to the importance of
qualified teacher
status, when a Liberal Democrat Minister presided over its removal?»
Some on the right question the validity of the
Qualified Teacher
Status, saying we should open
teaching up to a wider group of people.
The government has further undermined the
status of
teaching by removing the requirement for schools to employ
qualified teachers.
According to the statistical data, only 11 per cent of teachers who gained a
qualified status (QTS) in the 2013 - 14 academic year were not in a
teaching job 6 months later.
Secondly, and even more importantly in the long term, the
teaching profession (and mathematics
teaching in particular) shares the problem of other industries in the paucity of
qualified graduates and this can only be addressed by a concerted effort to raise the
status of the profession.
National College for
Teaching and Leadership statistics show that 16 per cent of the 38,746 awards of
qualified teacher
status (QTS) made in England over the same period were from overseas.
• Enhance the
status of
teaching by: giving all teachers, especially those at the beginning of their careers, an entitlement to (and expectation to utilise) CPD, and taking steps towards
teaching becoming an all Master's
qualified profession; and subsidise membership of professional bodies and subject associations for teachers early in their career to ensure they have access to professional learning.
The consultation is on plans to strengthen
qualified teacher
status and is welcoming views on the benefits of a sabbatical fund which will be available to teachers who have been
qualified in
teaching for at least seven years.
Graduates value
Teaching Apprenticeships because they are simple to understand and provide a fee - free, route to achieving
Qualified Teacher
Status.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said it had worked with the profession to «raise the
status of
teaching», adding that that a record number of highly -
qualified graduates and «experienced career changers» were now
teaching.
«This provides opportunities for people with experience in areas like business, music, the arts, and sport to complement the work of teachers who do hold
qualified teacher
status and enhance the
teaching available to pupils.
That's why Liberal Democrats will require every teacher to hold
Qualified Teacher
Status, will support the Royal College of
Teaching and will invest in high quality professional development.
Since the «highly
qualified»
status is now replaced with effectiveness, I predict some leeway in certification requirements and alternative pathways to
teaching made easier at the state level.
The
Teaching Apprenticeship Programme (TAP) provides a fee - free, salaried route for graduates to enter the
Teaching profession and gain
Qualified Teacher
Status (QTS) within 1 year.
Qualified Teacher
Status, with at least 3 years
teaching experience in the Primary classroom OR Graduate in Science (any specialism) plus PGCE or Education degree
Although it is of course the case that not all of them will have left a
teaching post in the English state school system or have full
Qualified Teacher
Status, this is still a remarkable and worrying statistic.
Complete all coursework and other requirements necessary to maintain
teaching credentials and «highly
qualified»
status, as required by the teacher's assignment.
At the moment, a trainee teacher must meet 33 standards in order to gain «
qualified teacher
status» (QTS) and only two of these relate explicitly to skills on how to
teach effectively.
«Smaller school district teachers have to be trained in all areas they
teach, so they meet highly -
qualified status, or they have to hire more people to do the job,» Smith said.
Pennsylvania also fails to require that secondary special education teacher candidates are highly
qualified in at least two subject areas, and it does not customize a HOUSSE route for new secondary special education teachers to help them achieve highly
qualified status in all subjects they
teach.
Ensure that secondary special education teacher candidates graduate with highly
qualified status in at least two subjects, and customize a HOUSSE route so that they can achieve highly
qualified status in all subjects they plan to
teach.
The latest initial teacher training statistics show that almost nine out of ten trainees who gain
qualified status (QTS) are in a
teaching job six months later — only 11 per cent of those who gained QTS in the 2013 - 14 academic year were not.
To be awarded
qualified teacher
status in England, applicants must have been fully
qualified and trained in countries that are recognised as comparable
teaching standards, said the spokesman.
The overall figures on the number of overseas teachers who achieved
qualified status in England last year are from the annual report of the National College of
Teaching and Leadership.
The good news is that the share of new trainees achieving
Qualified Teacher
Status (QTS)(including
Teach First figures) has remained high and broadly stable at 91 per cent, and has even increased very slightly over the last three years.
If you
qualified as a teacher in Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the USA, you do not need to undertake any further training, but must apply to the National College for
Teaching and Leadership in order for your qualifications to be verified prior to being awarded QTS
status.
Some have built on this line of reasoning by suggesting that oral contraceptives should be given over-the-counter
status too, as a replacement for comprehensive insurance coverage of contraception.1 Similarly, social conservatives seeking to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs such as Medicaid have argued that less - specialized health care providers, such as federally
qualified health centers, could fill the void this would create.2 And in October, a leaked White House memo recommended that funding for the Title X national family planning program should be cut by at least half and suggested that money could be better used for
teaching adolescents about fertility awareness methods exclusively.3