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Strategic Commissioning 2010-11

Workforce Skills Development Programme

Initial Teacher Training


Penny Bull

Strategic Commissioning Project Manager

- ITT, SEN and the London region

07825 932 776

[email protected]

[email protected]




Strategic Commissioning is a cultural education programme, funded by DCMS and DCSF, which aims to build capacity and sustainability into museum and archive learning through the development of exemplar models of practice and workforce skills.

MLA’s Strategic Commissioning workforce development programme offers opportunities for museum and archive educators, teachers, trainee teachers and other cultural sector and children’s and young people’s professionals.




Initial Teacher Training Grant Programme

Aims to embed the use of museums and archives into the practice of teachers at the beginning of their professional careers.

Museum and archive staff should also benefit from the ideas and expertise the trainees bring to their service




The programme enables trainee teachers to take part in funded placements in museums and archives. Placements support:

Trainees to:

Enjoy using museums and archives

Understand how museums and archives can support teaching and learning

Develop their skills in using objects in the classroom

Museum/archive staff to:

Consider fresh approaches to the collections

Better understand teachers’ needs and the needs of the curriculum

Better understand their role in supporting teacher education



Initial Teacher Training Placements are designed in a variety of ways.

Short placements may include:

Evaluating existing resources and carrying out research

Mapping existing resources to the curriculum and identifying gaps

Creating, and preparing, marketing resources

Assisting in outreach

Longer placements may include:

Researching, developing and creating resources

Explore accessibility and adapting resources for SEN

Deliver a part, or all, of a session to a variety of audiences

Liaise with teachers

Tip: A whole cohort could do a 2 day placement, with a smaller number returning for more in-depth work




AIMS:

• To establish links with future teachers

• To allow museum and archive partners to get a different perspective on the objects in their collections

• To develop trainees’ understanding of how museums and archives can be used to support them

• To build on existing relationships with Kingston University

WHAT HAPPENED:

Coordinated by Kingston Library and Heritage service, placement hosts included 7 other museums and archives.

Placements lasted five days and incorporated:• A day for initial teacher trainees to find out about the project and meet their host. • Three day placements with the host during which the students prepared a learning resource based around an object or selection of objects• A presentation day

Case Study – A Brave New World




IMPACT:The feedback from students shows a much better understanding of how museums and archives can support teaching. Statements of intent to use local museums and archives in the future are really encouraging. A number of students had clearly been inspired by the collections they were working with and had done independent research.

I also have a better understanding of how artefacts can support and strengthen children’s learning…I now understand and recognise what the benefits are to creating good relationships with local museums and archives.Trainee Teacher

Huge benefit to the organisation which has very limited staff.Museum participant

A Brave New World cont.




The types of institutions currently supported by the ITT programme include:• museums and archives with a strong background in education

• museums and archives of all shapes and sizes who would benefit from the students’ expertise

• Providers of Initial Teacher Training

To develop a partnership, the Teaching Outside the Classroom website is a good place to start – www.teachingoutsidetheclassroom.com




For more information please:

Visit www.mla.gov.uk/what/programmes/commissioning/Initial_Teacher_ Training

Email [email protected]

Phone 07825 932776

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