The Masters in Teaching and Learning MTL

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The Masters in Teaching and Learning(MTL)

• Dr Nick Sutcliffe
• Strategic Leader, Teacher CPD

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Origins

• Move to upgrade teaching to a Masters level
  profession
• Comparable to pre-clinical/clinical model used in
  high-status professions such as medicine (or
  law)
• First appeared as a government commitment in the
  March 2008 DCSF document Being the Best
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• Task of developing MTL allocated to TDA (John
  Carr)
• Across 9 GORs 8 by competitive tender
  Northwest pathfinder
• Consultations in mid-2008 to early 2009
• Reputedly an election proof commitment by
  central government.

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Characteristics

• Partnership consortia in each GOR, contract
  allocations in June 2009
• Consortia HEIs schools LAs subject
  associations etc.
• Completely new qualification
• Entitlement for NQTs and newly appointed HODs
• Initially National Challenge and Schools in
  Challenging Circumstances in 2010 (except
  Pathfinder in NW) but intention is to roll out to
  all schools nationally
• HEI Input and validation
• Supported by 3-way relationship, participant HEI
  tutor school-based coach, individually
  negotiated programme of study
• Majority of funding goes to participating
  schools.
• 30 free school dinners in a school with
  leadership rated
• by Ofsted as being good or outstanding.

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Structure of MTL

• 8 Modules and can import up to 30 credit points
  at M level from PGCE to cover module 1 (Masters
  level credit points in brackets)
• Module 1 Reflecting on Professional Practice
  (30)
• Module 2 Developing Professional Enquiry skills
  (10)
• Module 3 Dynamics of Teaching, Learning and
  Assessment (20)
• Module 4 Curriculum Perspectives (20)
• Module 5 Diversity and Learners (20)
• Module 6 Leadership, Management and
  Collaborative Working (20)
• Module 7 Professional Practice Enquiry 1 (30)
• Module 8 Professional Practice Enquiry 2 (30).

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Yorkshire The Humber MTL Consortium

• 9 HEIs (Leeds, Leeds Trinity, Leeds Met, York,
  York St. John, Hull, Huddersfield, Sheffield,
  Sheffield Hallam universities) 30 Schools all
  of the LAs in the region subject associations
  etc. (e.g. Training Schools, Dyslexia Society
  etc.)
• First intake April 2010
• National qualification so changing schools may
  not be too problematic
• To be determined...
• - coach training
• - operational model for school, NQTs/RQTs and
  HEIs across the region.
• - arrangements for participants who do not pass
  their induction year.

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Indications of interest nationally (TDA figures)

• By 4 September, 6,496 people had signed up for
  information, including 176 head teachers
• Between January and August, there were over
  23,000 hits on the MTL website, with the QAs
  downloaded over 1,100 times
• 1,592 eligible NQTs are planning to teach in the
  north west, with a further 283 planning to teach
  in a school in challenging circumstances.