Professor David Reynolds, a senior advisor to the Welsh government, has welcomed the planned “new deal” for teachers – involving the use of electronic passports to chart development – but warned that changes to ITT seemed “urgently necessary”.
Writing in the Wales Journal of Education, Prof Reynolds said building of teacher “capacity” to teach and professionally improve had become a cornerstone of education policy around the world.
He stated: “The biggest ‘bangs’ for policy ‘bucks’ undoubtedly lie in the area of CPD for our existing educational personnel. But important increments in teacher quality can also be attained from an attention to ITT, too. Action concerning ITT seems urgently necessary.”
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