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Welcome to the Teach Too Blog
Professional community of practice
Further Education and Skills providers are responsible for teaching and training the workforce of the future – whether its young people starting on the career ladder, or adults who are looking to retrain or improve existing skills.
All sectors have seen significant changes. So how do those teaching the future workforce keep up to date with the latest methodologies, technical advances and working practices? This is a challenge that sector organisations have faced for a number of years.
Why Teach Too?
The Education and Training Foundation Teach Too programme delivered by the Association of Colleges brings industry professionals and training providers together, to help tackle the challenge. Teach Too aims to address quality improvement in technical education and training, implementing Teach Too principles and approaches based on the recommendations of the CAVTL Report.
The idea is for employer staff to work with teachers and trainers on developing the curriculum, designing programmes and sharing the delivery of learning and assessment. This not only helps teachers and trainers to make sure they have up to date industry knowledge, but it also ensures the programmes are clearly aligned to the world of work. Students are then able to grasp why they are learning as well as understand the development of occupational expertise.
The emphasis is on two-way street genuine collaborations between FE Sector providers and employers. Encouraging people from industry to spend some time teaching their work. This will enable both a national core and locally tailored element, giving employers a direct involvement in designing, planning, developing and in some cases delivering technical programmes.
Teach Too approaches implement the key characteristics on which excellent technical and vocational teaching and learning programmes depend:
a clear line of sight to work
‘Dual Professional’ teachers and trainers who combine occupational and pedagogical expertise and are trusted and given the time to develop partnerships and curricula with employers
access to industry-standard facilities and resources reflecting ways in which technology is transforming work
clear escalators to higher level vocational learning, developing and combining deep knowledge and skills.
How can you get involved
As we move into Phase 5 of the Teach Too programme we invite successful project applicants and sector colleagues to share their learning, challenges, resources by contributing to the Teach Too Blog. The aim is to build a community of practice by posting newsletters, enabling effective practice and useful resources to be shared widely.
Please email your newsletters, resources, video links to ETF Teach Too Associate Mark Ravenhall for review prior to upload – markravenhall@sky.com.
About us
Email: cerian.ayres@etfoundation.co.uk
Website: etfoundation.co.uk
Phone: 020 3740 8280
Twitter: @E_T_Foundation