Teachers: Training
(asked on 2nd April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is monitoring the implementation by Initial Teacher Training providers of its Framework of Core Content for Initial Teacher Training published in July 2016; and if he will make a statement.
All Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses must enable their trainees to demonstrate that they meet the Teachers' Standards (2011). It is for ITT providers to use their professional judgement to determine the content and structure of their courses.
To support ITT providers to do this, the Department published the Framework of Core Content for ITT in 2016 and it is still in place. In the Recruitment and Retention Strategy, published in January 2019, the Department committed to reviewing ITT core content guidance using the Early Career Framework as our starting point. This will ensure that ITT complements and builds towards the Early Career Framework and together they will provide the foundations of a successful and rewarding career.
Ofsted is responsible for testing the quality of ITT and it assesses how providers use the Framework as part of ITT inspections. At their most recent inspection, 99% of all ITT providers were rated good or outstanding.[1] Officials are working closely with Ofsted on the development of its new ITT inspection guidance, to ensure that providers’ use of the framework remains crucial to judgements about ITT quality.