Education White Paper 2010

Response to the Education White Paper 2010

The most welcome aspect of this whitepaper is the emphasis it places on supporting teachers to improve educational outcomes. We have long believed that teachers are the most important part of the education system.

This has been further supported by enabling the factors known to have an impact on teacher learning namely their access to lesson observations and interschool sharing of expertise.

“We know that teachers learn best from other professionals and that an “open” classroom culture is vital” Quote from Pg 19 2.4

The most critical aspect we believe is the establishment of Teaching Schools in-line with the Medical School Model of Teaching Hospitals; crucially these schools will support both Initial Teacher Education and Professional Development of In-Service teachers. We believe that this is also a positive step, as research clearly shows a link between the contextualisation of learning and the extent to which you can implement new techniques in the future.

For both initial teacher training (ITT) and CPD to work effectively we believe lesson observation, collaboration and easy communication within a network of schools has to be at the core of this new system.

We have built IRIS connect to support this very model. We can implement this model today.

Our unique cloud-based community of practice and mobile lesson observation technology allows a cluster of schools to share their securely annotated observation videos, this means:

If you are a interested in becoming a teaching school or you are a University looking to engage more meaningfully with a cluster of schools we would be delighted to hear from you! To read more about IRIS Connect’s unique approach to inter-school professional training please download our “making the network for teachers”