Building partnership relationships
and developing practice in relation to
14-19 diploma ITT placements
With contributions from:
EM – John Cleveland, Michaela Thomas
SE1 – Larkmead, Carolyn Reid Oxford Brookes University
WM – Leesowes Rob Thomas/Peter Carr Birmingham City
University
East – Biddenham, Alison Feist Anglia Ruskin University

East Midlands Region
Aims
Collaboration
Grassroots
Challenges
achievements

We have developed a collaboration that will continue to develop
as Diplomas are implemented. This has proven to be a difficult
project and we have encountered problems throughout.
However, the project has enabled us to pull staff together,
provide vital subject specific information and to make a huge
number of long lasting contacts with those in many consortia
across the country. It has made us engage with Oxford Brookes
and to think about what we do to help the teachers of the future.
The creation of a VLE is underway and with the help of
Waddesdon this may be up and running as a resource for
September 2009. The intention is to make this available to
Oxford Brookes students
In conjunction with Oxford Brookes we are setting up a pilot
scheme for ITT, using Abingdon’s Creative and Media Diploma
as a model for interns with a clear programme of delivery and
assessment.

West Midlands 14-19 Creative and Media Diploma
ITT Partnership Development Project
Building Partnership Developing Practice
Context
Collaboration
Preparation
Dissemination
What’s next…………?

East Region
Building partnerships in relation to the
14-19 Agenda
The 21st Century Practitioner
•Shared, sustainable practice with PDS and stakeholders
•Teachers, mentors, lecturers, tutors and trainees
•Exploring the 14-19 agenda and the pedagogy of applied learning
•Website
•Conference/symposium

Messages and implications for 14-19 partnerships
Collaboration
Transformational partnerships
Creative teaching
Flexibility
Innovation
Innovative deployment of trainees