What’s the tipping point? Employed by a MAT but tweets suggest 2 or 3 days a week of time spent at conferences and other external events. How do the MATs judge the impact of such an itinerary?

Parents, voters, ministers – do the maths: if we run out of teachers, who will teach our children? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Big moment. 25 years in the making!

What we actually need is experienced teachers and leaders. And we are losing far too many of them. Filling these experience
gaps with new, or temporary teachers and TAs isn’t good enough, especially when gaps just keeping getting wider.

Ah yes and that's another thing that's been severely damaged... traditional itt providers were kept out of those decisions

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“We are continuing with our career changers programme. We’re not axing Now Teach. We’re not re-procuring it, so we’re not extending it again.”
But he added that “to put it in perspective, it’s about 200 to 250 people in a typical year out of about 7,000 career changers coming in

Dave Louca Paul Killen Thanks Dave
Ironically 1) is what DfE claimed the market review would improve! Instead it’s even more complicated than before. All goes back to Gove , unsurprisingly!

Many of the best teacher educators in the country were stopped from training by this govt.... some of these were outstanding providers... ask them! Nearly everyone commenting on this topic has no idea of the damage this govt have done to teacher training over last few years

Ian Phillips Diane Leedham Biggest lesson from TF. Pay people while they train to teach; don’t expect then to accrue further student debt. Much of its popularity with applicants is ( unsurprisingly ) this.

Imagine you introduce austerity, which hits most vulnerable. You handle pandemic by partying. You do Brexit knowing it’s going to adversely impact those vulnerable most. You remove justice, batter NHS & don’t support mental health care. Then you blame vulnerable for not coping….

tilda martin Did these same MAT leaders speak out when ITT providers - universities with hundreds of years of ITE expertise and outstanding SCITTs - were axed by the DfE’s Market Review? Now Teach encourages some mature teacher recruits - granted. It doesn’t actually train anyone to teach.

Absolutely right. The axing of NowTeach is daft and shows the govt is losing its touch, but it will get a lot of airtime. After over two decades of following mainstream education coverage, this has become a special subject of mine; who and what gets listened to and why?

Adam Kohlbeck FCMI FCCT paulcline Teachers Talk Radio Wrote my MA thesis last year on PL for coaches. Case study approach. Found that highly prescribed models were initially effective but seemed to reduce coach expertise over time. Implications that implementation is far trickier than just ‘doing coaching’ !

This.

What we actually need is experienced teachers and leaders. And we are losing far too many of them. Filling these experience
gaps with new, or temporary teachers and TAs isn’t good enough, especially when gaps just keeping getting wider.

We can spend forever arguing for/against Tom Bennett's behaviour management strategies and we are all entitled to all have our own values and theories of education. But at the end of the day data shows a massive leap in exclusions on his watch which means he’s missed his brief

NowTeach gets a BBC Radio 4 Today interview slot. I listen to this programme every day, but have heard no coverage of the market review or subsequent accreditation process that knocked a whole bunch of established providers out of teacher education.

We've trained many career changers, including those in their mid and late 50s, in the communities in which we work, without the extra funding or political patronage. Much better value ways of addressing the recruitment crisis exist.

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