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Partnerships in ITE
Bishop Grosseteste University has developed comprehensive partnership links with colleges, schools and nurseries throughout the region and has a well-earned reputation for producing high quality entrants into the teaching profession. -
ITE Documents Centre
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*Primary ITE Documents
These CPD guides are only to be used when directed by your SBM. They are designed to support you in your development, but only when gaps in knowledge and understanding have been identified by you and your mentor. You are not expected to complete all of the tasks within the guides and you may find that you do not need to use them at all. -
Secondary ITE Documents
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FE ITE Documents
Mentoring Agreement Form Mentor Details Form ETF Mentoring Framework Guide for Mentors in Further Education Mentoring Mentors Video BGU ITE FE Mentoring Principles Mentors Exemplar targets ASS 1 Exemplar targets HE MB 1 Exemplar targets HPL CP AT 1 Exemplar targets PB1 -
Guidance for ECTs (Early Career Teachers) - Beyond ITE (BITE)
We recognise that your early career induction matters – as your professional development continues during this two- year period. This section of BGU’s website has been designed to support early career teachers. It offers guidance, together with useful links to sites and documents. Below are key sections to support your development as a teacher covering: Early Career Teacher Advice and SupportUseful Resources and WebsitesNational Teaching PrioritiesContinued Professional Development and Further Study As stressed in BGU teaching sessions, we are not qualified to support you with legal matters and would strongly advise that you join a Teachers’ Union. BGU is committed to supporting you as you transition to the school workplace; we want to continue to work with you during these formative years. Your school mentor and tutor will provide guidance and support, including coaching and mentoring, for your professional development. However, remember that as early career teachers, BGU is still here to support you with aspects of your teaching activity. For example, advice on behaviour management or subject knowledge and pedagogy. The recently developed Early Career Framework offers a structured programme of development, support, and professional dialogue. This programme provides a set of materials which cover the five core areas of the ECF. These are Behaviour Management, Pedagogy, Curriculum, Assessment and Professional Behaviours. Please email us at beyondite@bishopg.ac.uk. Your communication will be forwarded to the appropriate member of staff. -
Tran inclusion - resisting the culture wars in ITE (Initial Teacher Education)
Dr Lyndsay Muir spoke about resisting the ‘culture wars’ in ITE as part of the Equalities keynote panel at the UCET conference in November 2023. This year she was asked back to talk at the 2024 conference in more detail about the work being done in collaboration with UCET colleagues on supporting Trans and Non-Binary (TNB) people who are joining the teaching profession. She outlined the heightened visibility of TNB people in the first decades of the 21st century, alongside the misrepresentations, misunderstandings and hostility that are likely to be within the lived experiences of TNB people. Many gender diverse people who wish to become teachers may be wary of the kind of media attention that someone like Lucy Meadows experienced in 2013 - a teacher who transitioned whilst in post, who wrote in an email to a friend on New Year’s Day 2013 I'd like to be able to say I've given something back. I suppose the best way for me to do this would be to educate the people around me and children at school – I am a teacher after all! After intense, intrusive and highly sensationalised media coverage, later criticised by the coroner (Pidd, 2013), she took her own life on the 19th March that same year. (See Trans teacher Lucy Meadow's death turns town against press | Transgender | The Guardian (Pidd & Murphy, 2013)). The combined effect of such sensationalised, often negative, media coverage (Gupta, 2019), with more recent draft DfE guidelines for consultation on ‘gender questioning’ pupils (Department for Education, 2024) and the publication of the Cass report on NHS Services for Young People (Cass, 2024) is the context in which the UCET Equalities sub-group has been discussing how best to support Trans and Non-binary entrants to the teaching profession. Lyndsay shared her insights into this collegiate dialogue, which is much needed and continues to evolve. -
BGU Initial Teacher Education (ITE) students earn nationally recognised Primary Science Enhancement Award (PSEA)
The PSEA scheme enables student teachers to increase their experience and understanding of teaching and learning in primary science. -
Outstanding partnership work celebrated
An award for an outstanding contribution to school partnerships was made in a short presentation to the headteacher and class teachers at Bishop King CE Primary on Wednesday 22nd May. The reason for the award was to celebrate their outstanding achievement in hosting placements over the past five years. This year alone, the school has facilitated 27 placements for teaching trainees derived mainly from the PGCE Primary, but also the Undergraduate BAPE programme – a massive contribution to the future teacher workforce. Speaking to the class teachers who have had trainees in their class this year, Mark Larrad (PGCE Placement Lead) told them: "Your contribution has been outstanding. As mentors to your trainees, you show total dedication and commitment, and your support and encouragement over the years has enabled trainees to excel! In every respect you go over and above." A specially designed certificate acknowledging their commitment (which had been specially approved and by signed by Bishop Grosseteste University's Vice Chancellor Karen Stanton and Chris Davis, who as Head of Partnerships, was also present), was accepted by Jenny Brown (ITE Coordinator) on behalf of all mentors. Bishop King has supported trainees for over 15 years. On a recent visit, an external examiner to the school commented on the high quality of mentoring and the strong nature of the relationship between the teacher mentors and BGU. The headteacher, Mrs Hazel Wheatley, thanked Mark on behalf of her staff. She acknowledged the many strengths that BGU trainees bring and hoped that the school would continue in its partnership in the future. Mrs Wheatley was also presented with flowers by Placement Services Manager Vicki Walker, in recognition of her generous contribution to ITE at BGU. -
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