welcome to the teacher education observatory

teacher education observatory

mission and aims

The Teacher Education Observatory (TEO) was established in 2010 by the Teacher Education Group, TEG, a group of teacher education academics from across the UK.

The purpose of the Observatory is to provide an accessible network and node which can monitor developments across the full range of teacher education, especially in the four jurisdictions of the UK.

This will be a means of communicating significant policy developments, the opportunities that are arising from them and their possible impacts on existing provision.

The TEO will incorporate links to existing resources such as the TEG bibliography and the Learning to Teach Website, but will also provide sites for ongoing discussions and reviews of contemporary developments.

newest reports

14/10/2011 Call for Papers - 3rd Teacher Education Advancement Network Annual Conference, Friday 18th May 2012, Conference Aston, Birmingham_Details can be found here.

19/04/2011 Radio 4 Today programme podcast_Monday, 18 April 2011_Should teachers be trained in the classroom? can be accessed here.

04/04/2011 Teacher Education Policy in Europe (TEPE) Conference 2011_Research-Based Teacher Education Reform: Making Teacher Education Work_13th - 15th May 2011, University of Vienna, Austria. Details about the conference can be found here.

17/03/2011
Teachers' Standards Review. DfE announce major overhaul of qualifications to raise the standard of teaching .

15/03/2011
Free online access to all Routledge Education journals throughout April 2011. Information about the Education Free for All campaingn is available here .

04/03/2011
TESS article/opinion piece: 'The end of the BEd, beginning of broad university education' writes Lindsay Paterson, Professor of Education Policy, Edinburgh University. Available here .

10/02/2011
THE Article: Academy hit hardest by teacher-training crisis: Universities bear brunt of loss of secondary school teacher-training places, writes Sarah Cunnane Available here .

0 2/02 /2011
‘Teaching makes a difference ' adddress by The Minister for Children, Education and Lifelong Learning, Wales. Secondary ITT intake targets ann o unc e d for Wales

28/01/2011
A review of the 2001 McCrone agreement, A Teaching Profession for the Twenty-First Century , is to be conducted in Scotland. The review will be chaired by Professor Gerry McCormac, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Stirling University.

19/01/2011 Potential freeze on entry to and progression through Chartered Teacher programe in Scotland

18/01/2011 Primary ITT intake targets announced fo r Wales
31/01/2011 Letter from Michael G ove to TDA confirming training places 2011/12 Infomation on the prop o sed Teaching Schools model outlined in the Schools White Paper 2010.

20/01/2011 Review of the National Curriculum In England launched

13/01/2011 Review of Teacher Education in Scotland

1 0/09/2010 Teach First graduates given go-ahead in Scotland

30/06/2010
Ministers launch review of teacher education in Northern Ireland

25/02/2011

Review of school inspection framework in Scotland reported here. HMIE reports on teacher education in Scotland are available here.

13/01/2011
The Report of the Review of Teacher Education in Scotland (the Donaldson Review), Teaching Scotland's Future was published on 13/01/2011.

11/2010
The Importance of Teaching, The Schools White Paper (Department for Education, 2010) was published in November 2010

01/10/2010
Literature Review on Teacher Education in the 21st Century. This publication was commissioned as part of the Review of Teacher Education in Scotland.

20/09/2010
Chartered Teacher Evaluating Accomplished Teaching Pilot Report.

16/09/2010
HMIE Report on the Aspect Review of Initial Teacher Education