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Chartered Teacher Suvery

17 05 2007

Please find below a copy of an email sent out to all staff. If you have not yet completed the survey please click on the link.

Hello,

My name is Joe McGeer and I am presently undertaking a PhD at the University of
Paisley and teaching part time at the University on the Chartered Teacher Programme. I have received permission from your Director to send you this email via the local authority intranet. The purpose of this email is to seek your support and cooperation by completing a questionnaire. My hope is that this research will enable the views of all teachers to be aired and hopefully be taken into account as the Programme is reviewed and presumably restructured. As well as being part of my study I feel it is very important that an independent academic survey, such as this, is undertaken and can make a contribution to the current review. The focus of my research is the Chartered Teacher Programme as a whole, covering its creation, progress to date and options for the future.

The survey will only take about 5 minutes to complete. I am wholly committed to complete confidentiality and anonymity and by undertaking the research in this way I do not have access to any personal information such as your name or email address. Therefore no individual, school or local authority can be identified in the final report or in any other associated correspondence.

I am undertaking this thesis under the supervision of Walter Humes, Research Professor at the University of
Paisley. Professor Humes will be happy to provide further information or clarification should you feel this would be helpful. He can be contacted at walter.humes@paisley.ac.uk.

If you have any further queries with regard to the survey please do not hesitate to contact me at mcgeer@btinternet.com or 01475 639765.

I have piloted the survey and the system appears to work well. It is possible, however, that the local authority firewall may at first prevent access. If this happens you may still access the site by pasting the web address below into your address bar. When you click ‘done’ at the end it automatically sends the results to me and moves you back to the SurveyMonkey homepage. If you are happy to take part in this survey please click on the link below which will take you to the survey site.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=477243652894
Thank you very much for helping me.
Joe McGeer

University of Paisley.

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Categories : Role of the Chartered Teacher

CT Remit

5 03 2007

Colleagues

I’ve been wondering how present or potential CT’s are using their skills in their schools or establishments over and above the work they do anyway. There is a debate on these issues on John Connell’s blog. Let’s start one here!

Here’s the remit (from TP21) which pertains to all teachers including CT’s - it’s all a question of degree perhaps:

teaching assigned classes together with associated preparation and correction;
developing the school curriculum;
assessing, recording and reporting on the work of pupils;
preparing pupils for examinations and assisting with their administration;
providing advice and guidance to pupils on issues related to their education;
promoting and safeguarding the health, welfare and safety of pupils;
working in partnership with parents, support staff and other professionals;
undertaking appropriate and agreed continuing professional development;
participating in issues related to school planning, raising achievement and individual review;
contributing towards good order and the wider needs of the school.

The key distinction made between CT’s and PT’s is the fact that the former don’t take on management of other staff.

CT’s in East Lothian, as well as other unpromoted staff, can take opportunities to mentor NQT’s, become Glow mentors, (and, of course mentor colleagues informally), facilitate inservice courses, liaise with other professionals, participate in working parties both within school and across the region…

What else are we all up to? What is the cross-over between management and leadership? Are there circumstances in which we feel unappreciated and vulnerable because of our ’status’?

Hilery