The document proposes establishing a Teaching Skills Academy at a college to improve teaching and learning through generating new ideas, promoting fresh thinking, and driving staff development. The Teaching Skills Academy will be designed by teaching staff and provide teachers opportunities to meet personal development targets and engage in research, creativity, and innovation. It aims to introduce in September 2012 and have all staff enrolled in a monitored personal development program linked to the college's key targets by July 2013.

1. What Why When
Enable outstanding To engage teachers in Introduce
teaching and learning the improvement of from
through establishment of teaching and learning September
a Teaching Skills across the college 2012
Academy to generate To enable the best
new ideas, promote fresh teaching and to sustain
thinking, research, creati the improvements
vity and innovation in achieved
teaching practice.
To drive staff
The Teaching Skills development for
Academy, which will be teachers
designed by teaching
To recognise and
staff, will also provide the
reward consistently
means for teachers to
exceptional teaching
meet their personal
development targets
High investment in All staff have a
staff development monitored personal
Staff activity but staff development College want this in
development inconsistent impact on programme which place by July 2013
overall college links to the key targets
performance outlined in this plan

2. A good education for all - proposals for further education and
skills inspections
Proposal 6:
Request that the provider presents an anonymised summary of the
outcomes of the most recent performance management of all
teacher/trainers/assessors.
•High quality teaching, learning and
assessment make a significant •It is one of the most important
difference to the future life chances of factors in determining whether
children, young people and adult a provider is 'good' or
learners. 'outstanding‘.
Senior staff in providers should use performance management and
professional development to increase the effectiveness of
teaching, learning and assessment to that it raises standards and
increases engagement of learners.