Sussex IT Partnership Forum

for Professional Tutors

Sussex IT Partnership Forum for Professional Tutors

Wednesday 11th November 2014 4.15pm – 6.15pmJUBILEE 155, University of Sussex4.10 Registration and refreshments4.30 Welcome and Updates (Jo Tregenza and Sally Dudley)5.00 Break Out Groups:•Option 1: SD – Secondary School Direct Leads and Professional Tutors – Sharing Good Practice in Recruiting and Selecting Trainees - come with ideas, examples or/and questions!•Option 2: Primary Professional Tutors - sharing of good practice •Option 3: How to improve Quality of mentor’s feedback: written and oral•Option 4 How to improve trainees’ confidence in Assessing pupils and Working with parents 5.50 Feedback from each group (3 headlines – 2 minutes each!)6.00 Evaluations and expense forms

Updates: A quick review of last year:

We started the year with …. Sir John Jones coming back on 27th MayAnd finished the year with ….Partnership Conference with Greg Burke in the Creativity Zone

How did we do last year?Recruitment target

PGCE 223SD Training 146SD Salaried 45TOTAL 414

% grade 1 PGCE 54%SD Training 60%SD Salaried 43%TOTAL 56%

Recruited PGCE 135SD Training 81SD Salaried 26TOTAL 242

% grade 2 PGCE 40%SD Training 36%SD Salaried 48%TOTAL 39%

% Graduated with QTS

PGCE 94%SD Training 90%SD Salaried 88%TOTAL 92%

% grade 3 PGCE 6%SD Training 4%SD Salaried 0%TOTAL 5%

% TWD PGCE 4%SD Training 6%SD Salaried 4%TOTAL 5%

% distinction

PGCE 35%SD Training 34%SD Salaried 53%TOTAL 36%

% PWD PGCE 1%SD Training 4%SD Salaried 12%TOTAL 3.3%

% merit PGCE 39%SD Training 37%SD Salaried 20%TOTAL 37%

% employed

PGCE 96%SD Training 86%SD Salaried 100%TOTAL 93%

% pass PGCE 24%SD Training 27%SD Salaried 27%TOTAL 26 %

English and computer science cohorts of 1 that each took PWD

What has happened so far this year:

• Everybody turned up all 314 of them!• NQT support conference – 60 attendees• Early Years conference: • Retention: 2 PWD Primary with maths PGCE + oversees4 TWD SD music, SD English, SD Maths and Primary PGCE(health reasons)

Recruitment Figures for this yearSubject and route

RecruitedSubject and route

RecruitedSubject and route

Recruited

Art and Design SD 3 History PGCE 4 PE SD 2Classics PGCE 11 History SD 12 Primary PGCE 227-14 Computer Science PGCE 4 History Sal 4 Primary SD 30Computer Science SD 2 Maths 7-14 PGCE 7 Primary Sal 4Computer Science Sal 2 Maths PGCE 26 Primary Early Years PGCE 16Design and Tech SD 1 Maths SD 8 Primary with Maths PGCE 10Design and Tech Sal 1 Maths Sal 4 Psychology PGCE 7

Drama PGCE18 Media Studies

PGCE1

RE SD1

Drama SD 4 Media Studies SD 1 RE Sal 2Drama Sal 1 MFL PGCE 17 Science – Biology PGCE 9English PGCE 5 MFL SD 3 Science – Biology SD 1English SD 10 MFL Sal 1 Science – Chemistry PGCE 12English Sal 4 Music PGCE 12 Science – Chemistry SD 1Geography PGCE 6 Music SD 1 Science - Physics PGCE 17Geography SD 4 Music Sal 1 Science - Physics SD 1Geography Sal 1 This years totals: 314

Thinking forwards:

• Guest speaker to open next year: any ideas?• OFSTED• Supporting the Mentors• Communication• Recruitment and a shifting landscape

OFSTED

• New two stage inspection: Summer term University: Autumn term: Schools (with our NQTs)

• Main focus of NQT visit is impact on pupil progressSome things we need to think about:• we are clear about how the enhancing placement gives an alternative

experience• OFSTED feedback from last year: Quality of mentor written feedback,

tracking of trainees and action planning• Everyone always needs to think about EAL and diversity• We could be any time but probably not until next year

Supporting the Mentors

• Catch up meeting• Take a look at the progress trackershttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_6yw66NTPH2R5F9xZr8UTVChF9GAnJIi6r3hTamIGx8/edit

Communication

• Regular newsletter

Recruitment nationally – some changes• School Direct Partnerships, School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITTs) and

universities (HEIs)registered with NCTL in July for approval to recruit to as many courses as they wish and to give indicative numbers

• NCTL have worked out the target numbers of trainees needed in each subject and phase, allocated protected target numbers for SD and SCITT places and HEIs can recruit the remainder for Core PGCE.

• Once UCAS open all School Direct, SCITT and Core PGCE providers recruit as many trainees as they wish …….UNTIL…..

• NCTL apply ‘controls’ when 1. universities go over their quota nationally and 2. For SD and SCITTS when/if the national target in that subject is reached

• Some individual HEIs and SCITTs will be ‘capped’ earlier if NCTL perceives from the data that they are ‘taking over the market’ in their area

Why? and what does this mean for our partnership?

• To remove barriers to providers being able to recruit more trainees than their original allocation

• NCTL are using this approach to channel a larger proportion of candidates through SD and SCITT route

• Some subjects didn’t meet their recruitment reserve nationally (e.g. Computer Studies, Maths, Science, MFL) so unlikely to be capped

• Others e.g. Primary, History, PE, are likely to be controlled – especially for HEIs but also for SD so………

• More of a race than ever before against other providers to get good candidates quickly

Sussex process very similar to last year • PRIMARY screened by primary team and interviews for SD organised

by tutors to take place in SD and PGCE schools• SECONDARY SCIENCE, MFL, SCIENCE AND ALL SALARIEDS invited to

interview at University first• SECONDARY ALL OTHER SUBJECTS Sussex Tutor team screen all

applications - feedback and recommendations sent to Lead School schools then interview using university schedule (unchanged from last year) and make offers

• For all secondary SD places schools generate offer letter from our template and return Admissions Record to iteadmissions.

Secondary Interview days

Wed 18th NovFriday 4th Dec These are the ‘set days’Wed 16th Dec tutors will also organise their ownWed 13th Jan where they need to be more responsiveFri 29th Jan to applications arrivingWed 10th FebFri 4th MarchWed 16th MarchWed 13th AprilFri 29th April Wed 11th May

New for 2016-2017

• Website page for schools with all recruitment, selection and admissions documentation and information

• Website page for candidates once they have accepted their offer with all admissions information and documentation

Upcoming Recruitment events – please advertise on your websites!

TUE 17/11/15 NCTL Hove Park School 4.30-7.30pm

Thur 26/11/15 SESTA TSA at Reigate School

SAT 28/11/15 NCTL Belfast 10-3pm

WED 9/12/15 NCTL Ashford 4.30-7.30pm

WED 27/01/16 NCTL Hastings 4.30-7.30pm

SAT 6/02/16 NCTL London Westminster 9.30-4pm

THUR 3/3-16 NCTL Crawley 5-8pm

Thank you for all your hard work on recruitment!