The White Paper looks abroad for inspiration, noting admiringly that South Korea
recruits teacher trainees from the top 5 %, and Finland from the top 10 %, of their school leavers.
Partly, it's a matter of creativity, says Childs: When
she recruits teacher trainees, she looks for «creativity; people who have alternative ways of explaining things.»
Not exact matches
Trainee teachers are
recruited early, sometimes immediately upon successful completion of their GCE «A» level education.
This change comes amid growing concerns of a
teacher shortage and is designed to give providers» the freedom and flexibility» to
recruit the
trainees that they need.
New recruitment rules announced by the National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) will allow initial
teacher training (ITT) providers to
recruit as many
trainees as they wish, until a national limit is met.
It will launch in September next year and will mirror entry criteria and high - quality course content currently required of all other
teacher trainees and will give schools across the country the opportunity to use the apprenticeship to
recruit and train new
teachers in - house.
Schools all over the country are experiencing unprecedented difficulties
recruiting trainees, qualified
teachers, middle and senior leaders.»
When it comes to
recruiting we often enlist the help of higher education partnerships and invite
trainee teachers who have completed their
teacher training at the school to apply for unfilled positions.
The government has repeatedly fallen short of its own targets for
recruiting trainee teachers and we are then losing far too many
teachers early in their careers.
Oberholzer added: «We are worried we won't be able to
recruit high quality
teacher trainees without the incentive of high value bursaries in the future.»
Today's announcement builds on a number of measures to
recruit and retain high - calibre
teachers, including a # 75million investment in
teachers» professional development and follows the recruitment of 32,000 new
trainees in 2017.
Trained
teachers specially
recruited for their skills in mentoring
trainees through challenging circumstances.
Mr Wormald with Sinead O'Sullivan, director of programme delivery at the National College for Teaching and Leadership — which is responsible for
teacher training — said on more than 12 occasions to the committee that the government's School Direct scheme, in which schools
recruit trainee teachers, was the answer to recruitment problems.
It has
recruited two
trainee teachers for this September.
They show some 19,213
trainees have been
recruited to courses for primary school
teachers - 93 % of the target.
«Many schools all over the country report great difficulties in
recruiting trainee teachers of the right calibre, newly qualified
teachers in specialist subject areas and also
recruiting people into more senior posts, especially heads of departments in core subjects.
The first cohort of
trainee teachers have already been
recruited meaning they will start the programmes in September, and their training will be honoured.
Citizenship attracts
trainee teachers from more economic and socially disadvantaged parts of the country than other subjects and has more black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME)
recruits.
The Department for Education has launched a television advertising campaign to encourage more applications, saying that 35,000
trainee teachers need to be
recruited every year.
In an email, seen exclusively by Schools Week, the NCTL said that any
teacher training providers that have already
recruited at least 90 per cent of their allowed number of
trainees, can request an increase in the limit up to 25 per cent beyond their original allocation, except in PE and undergraduate courses.
The Department for Education this morning released provisional figures for the number of
trainee teachers recruited for this academic year.
The same rule will apply to universities and school centred initial
teacher training (SCITT) for category 2 subjects — art and design, biology, chemistry, English and music — but School Direct routes will be allowed to
recruit «as many
trainees as they need» in those subjects, based on an overall cap in each subject, not an individual allocation.
Dr Allen said the best prospect for the government to up the number of MFL
trainees was to run overseas schemes and to
recruit from «where we think there is an oversupply of
teachers».
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