The Arthur Terry School, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands

The Arthur Terry School became a teaching school in July 2011 and less than a year later achieved accreditation  as a SCITT – school-centred initial teacher training – provider. It is part of a 25-strong Teaching School Alliance which includes Birmingham City University plus primary, special and secondary schools.

Simon Robert is its Director of Teaching School, with day-to-day responsibility for running the teaching school.

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With the news from the Daily Mail of leaked papers on the changes of GCSEs to a more O-Level type exam, here are the other changes that Michael Gove announced last week as part of a ‘Transformation’ of Education

Michael Gove spoke last week at the National College of Leaders Conference. With the focus of the three day event being ‘Seizing Success’ Gove’s speech concentrated firstly on the progress in leadership development in our schools, moving on to how the government are planning to transform the next generation of quality teachers.

This is the summary of the main points that stood out from the keynote speech:

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Last night we attended the exhibitor’s dinner at the Holiday Inn at the Prague Conference Centre. The venue was stunning and we were more than impressed. The evening started with a champagne reception and then a year 11 and year 12 student from a local school provided us with some exceptional musical entertainment.

After this, a buffet dinner was served followed by an amazing array of desserts which were far too tempting to turn down. A great night was had by all as it provided an opportunity to talk to other exhibitors at the conference who we might not have had the chance to speak to otherwise.

This morning Gerry headed off to the English College of Prague who have been using Eteach to advertise their teaching posts for many years now. She had a very pleasant meeting with the head teacher of the school, Mark Waldron and the meeting enabled her to find out more about the school and some of the unique features that it offers to its students.

After lunch Gerry headed off to a talk called ‘Getting on the way to Mastering Level with the IPC’ and I went to a session all about blogs and wikis. As expected, we both thoroughly enjoyed the talks and were disappointed that this was now the end of the 2011 COBIS Conference for Teachers and Leaders.

With that, I headed off to the airport and Gerry excitedly awaited the arrival of her husband and son who flew out to Prague to join Gerry for a short break so they can explore the city some more.

All in all, a great time was had by everyone who attended the conference, whether as an exhibitor or a member of teaching staff. It provided great networking opportunities and the chance to learn more about the education sector through all the talks which were held over the two days. In fact, we enjoyed it so much that we are already counting down the days until the 2012 conference.
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Just returned from the annual European Council of International Schools (ECIS) conference in Hamburg…
ECIS conferences are always very successful professional development opportunities for senior leaders, teachers and support staff

This conference was no exception with over 270 innovative seminars ranging from International Leadership and Management to digital storytelling in the classroom…

I really enjoyed meeting existing Eteach.com members both candidates and recruiters, including schools from Germany the host country PHORMS and the Bavarian International School

As you already know Eteach.com is committed to connecting teachers worldwide… to that aim we sponsored the ECIS conference Cyber Cafe… lots of delegates, many with IB experience joined Eteach.com between surfing the net and checking their emails…

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Colin

international@eteach.com

Are we investing enough in Education?

ECIS Conference, Cascais, Portugal

Over 500 senior school leaders from across the world attended the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) Conference in Cascais, Portugal. The conference held over April 16 – 19 focused on ‘Leading for Educational Excellence through the Economic Crisis’

Throughout the conference, Eteach International contributed to this vibrant discussion and extended it’s network with Directors, Headteachers and Business Managers representing International Schools from every continent.

With the world undergoing tremendous changes in finances and leadership, with birth rates falling and life expectancy increasing on a global scale the planning and development of future International Education are clearly hot topics…

What do you think? How do schools and professionals prepare students for…

• higher old age dependency rations and long life societies
• developing life course arrangements of working and learning
• an increased diversity of populations
• modern and future labour markets

As you know Eteach International leads recruitment innovation and we believe in the delivery of cost effective ways to connect schools, teachers, leaders and support staff. This is even more important during this current economic period…

The provision of quality education provision is essential for long term economic recovery and the stimulus of industry and political leaders of the future… what do you think?

Is Education in the UK and overseas investing enough in the education of children and young people? Add a comment in the post below.