The Importance of Teachers - Policy Exchange

The Importance of Teachers

A collection of essays on teacher recruitment and retention

Edited by Jonathan Simons

The Importance of Teachers

A collection of essays on teacher recruitment and retention

Edited by Jonathan Simons

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Contents

Acknowledgements

5

About the Authors

6

Foreword

11

Introduction

13

1. Let's Talk About Flex Jonathan Simons, Policy Exchange15

2. Recruiting and Retaining Teachers ? the Art of the Possible Leora Cruddas, ASCL23

Section 1: General Overview of the Teacher Supply Market 3. Fitting Together the Jigsaw ? What of the Missing Piece? Professor John Howson, University of Oxford30 4. Tapping into the Most Competitive Recruitment Market Ever James Darley, Teach First36

Section 2: The Role of Initial Teacher Training and Education 5. Initial Teacher Training ? a Tragedy of the Commons? Professor Chris Husbands, Sheffield Hallam University44 6. The Initial Teacher Education We Need, Why We Don't Have It, and How to Get It Dr Jo Saxton, Future Academies50

Section 3: Ongoing Teacher Development and Retention 7. Moving from Initial Teacher Education through the Professional Learning Continuum ? the Role of Universities Dr Elaine Wilson, University of Cambridge 60 8. Should we be Focussing on ITT and Early CPD, or Broader Mid and Late Career Retention? Philippa Cordingley, Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE)67 9. The Role of Multi Academy Trusts in Developing Teachers; and Why Nick Gibb is Nearly Right Professor Toby Salt, Ormiston Academies Trust 76

Section 4: Deployment and a Regional Approach for Teachers

10. Managing Teacher Supply ? a Strategy for a Digital Age

Chris Kirk, Alice Cornish and Jude Simpson, PricewaterhouseCoopers 83

11. Training New Teachers in the School-led

Self-improving System: the Work in the North East

John Hardy, SCHOOLS NorthEast

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