Specialist teachers
Friday 5 February 2010, Institute of Physics
About the seminar
The SCORE partnership has concerns on the term specialist and
expert teachers in the sciences. The term has many definitions
by different stakeholders and this has resulted in inconsistent
data on the number of subject specialist teachers teaching in
England and a lack of focus on subject based CPD.
The seminar brought together the wider science and science
education community to consider what it means to be an expert
science teacher. Delegates took part in small discussion
groups to consider ways in which stakeholders can measure teacher
expertise and how to ensure teachers are supported throughout their
careers to reach expert or specialised status. Current
accreditation qualifications and awards were also discussed.
Programme
Chair - Professor Peter Main, Director Science and Education,
Institute of Physics
Registration of teachers
Luke Graham, Recruitment Strategy Executive Directorate for
Training, TDA
Mark Fieldsend, Registration Operations Manager, GTCE
Measuring teacher expertise in the sciences
Professor Robin Millar, Department of Educational Studies,
University of York
Accreditation
MTL (Luke Graham, Recruitment Strategy Executive Directorate for
Training, TDA)
SLC Professional Development Award for Science Teachers (Miranda
Stephenson, National Centre Programme Director, NSLC)
CSciTeach (Kathryn Thomson, Director Professional Development,
ASE and Alisdair Orr, Deputy Registrar, Science Council)