developing people, improving young lives

QTS standards, ITT requirements, accompanying guidance, and the TTRB

21st November 2008

Lucy Avery, Eligio Cerval-Pena

Standards in ITT Team

Purposes of the session

• To review recent ITT requirements developments

• To review development of guidance to QTS standards and ITT requirements, including case studies

• To highlight links between the guidance and the TTRB

• To respond to queries, and identify opportunities for further guidance and support

New requirements and guidance

Providers must: • Assess suitability and provisionally register

trainees with the GTC(E) (new R1.5)• Ensure trainees are ‘ISA’ registered (2009)

(amended R3.3)• Have processes in place to ensure that any trainee

teachers removed from or leaving a training programme as a result of misconduct are referred to the GTC(E) (new R3.4).

Development of R1.1 guidance

developing people, improving young lives

The Guidance

Standards and requirements guidance• Link from: www.tda.gov.uk/qts Guidance aims to:• Clarify the standards and requirements and

promote a common understanding among all providers and their partners

• Help everyone involved in ITT understand the rationale and scope of each standard & requirement

• Give an indication of the likely sources of assessment evidence relevant to the standards

• Link to supporting resources for trainees and providers, including new case studies

Alert System

Case Studies

• The case studies are designed to chart a trainee's journey through outstanding ITT provision, and highlight the trainee's outstanding demonstration of meeting the QTS standards, as well as linking to Ofsted's outstanding grade characteristics.

• So far around 30 case studies have been commissioned with more to follow.

• Publication of case studies, linked to the relevant standards and requirements is underway.

Contact details

Lucy Avery: 02070238320Stefan Burkey: 02070238307Eligio Cerval-Pena: 02070238049Paul Moses: 02070238293

Workshop task

• Observations / questions / comments• Review the case studies:

– How helpful are they?– How could they be more helpful?

• What further guidance and/or support would be helpful?