The National Framework for Masters in Teaching and

LearningUCET Discussion Meeting

Thursday 12 May 2009

MTL is about…

• Enabling teachers to become consistently highly effective in the classroom

• Better and more consistent teaching in the classroom

• Reducing the achievement gap

• Better life chances for children and young people

What will MTL look like?

• Collaboration • Professional learning• Personalisation• Content• Assessment• Wider expertise• Resources &Technology• Finance• QA• Evaluation of Impact• The Course Team

MTL Phases

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3

Developing Broadening and embedding

Deepening

Content AreasContent area 1 • teaching and learning• assessment for learning

Content area 2• subject knowledge for teaching • curriculum development

Content area 3 • how children and young people develop, how they learn and

management of their behaviour• inclusion, including SEN, EAL

Content area 4 • leadership and management• working collaboratively, in and beyond the classroom

The BIG Issues

• Time• Structural issues • Pedagogical models• Staffing• ‘Content’• Resources – and the ‘knowledge base’ IT• Assessment• Issues relating to shared development of one

MTL programme