House of Lords written question – answered at on 7 December 2010.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have a strategy to improve the training received by teachers in schools.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve teaching standards in secondary schools.
The White Paper The Importance of Teaching, published on
We are committed to creating a new national network of teaching schools, building on the good work of existing training schools and national teaching schools. These outstanding schools will be responsible for leading the training and professional development of teachers and head teachers ensuring that every school has access to highly effective professional development support.
We want to provide opportunities for teachers to increase their subject knowledge, so that they are seen, alongside university academics, as the guardians of the intellectual life of the nation. A new competitive scholarship fund will therefore be introduced in 2011 which will provide teachers with the opportunity to deepen their subject knowledge.
We will also review the existing teacher professional standards to ensure that our expectations of teachers are clear, making it easier to assess teacher performance and to steer professional development.
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