Towards a Royal College of Teaching

Empowerment

Excellent teachers change lives‘Cognitive challenge is essential in all teaching’

‘The message is clear: expect more, teach better, and children will respond’ Robin Alexander

Research and Practice• University / school

partnerships• University Training

Schools• A masters led

profession• Shared research• Teacher agency• Further investment in

Universities

‘Pupils will not learn to think for themselves if their teachers are expected to do as they are told’

‘Few things are more important than to restore to schools and their members a sense of empowerment and self respect’

Transcending politics

• Shared aims for education

• Professional knowledge

• Career advice• Research informed• Peer review• High status

Pedagogy of principle rather than prescription.

Thinking differently about professional learning

Collaboration

A principled approach:

• Trust

• Co-agency

• Inclusion

Innovation

Creativity

Co–construction of a curriculum for professional learning.

Ambition for change

• Princes Teaching Institute consultation• Commons Select Committee• Teacher Development Trust• Subject Associations• UCET• Unions

Excellence is about:

Caring more than others think is wiseRisking more than others think is safeDreaming more than others think is practicalExpecting more than others think is possible.

African proverb

Together we can achieve more

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