An Evaluation of the BBC News School Report Project in Initial Teacher Education for the Training and Development Agency (TDA) 2010

Bradshaw, Pete; Younie, Sarah and Cameron, Karen (2010). An Evaluation of the BBC News School Report Project in Initial Teacher Education for the Training and Development Agency (TDA) 2010. ITTE.

Abstract

Executive summary

Overall, the project greatly enhanced trainees’ experiences of initial teacher education, in terms of collecting robust evidence for particular standards and enhancing employability. The project provided opportunities for accelerated professional development of trainees in terms of enhancing leadership and enabled trainees to be graded 1 in Ofsted criteria.

The evaluation indicated the following:

• Taking part in the project offers new models of partnership in terms of consortia and rhythms of placement.
• The project resulted in enhancement of trainees’ subject knowledge and technical skills, providing evidence for standard Q14.
• The project exposed trainees to working in cross-curricular and extracurricular contexts, providing evidence for standards Q17 and Q23.
• Trainees engagement in the project led to greater independence of learning (and concomitant personalisation) than in other forms of coursework due to their ownership of tasks. This provided evidence for standard Q31.
• The professional profile of trainees was enhanced, as was that of the school. The former led to increased perception of employability.
• Trainees were given more freedoms, encouraged to take risks and to engage with authentic tasks. This provided evidence for standards Q8, Q10 and Q30.
• The project led to richer reflections on practice than other teaching the trainees had undertaken.
• The project accelerated the trainees’ confidence and professional development as evidenced for standard Q7 and led to different relationships between trainees and other school staff.

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• Item ORO ID
• 29472
• Item Type
• Other - Research Report (for external body)
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Not Set	Not Set	TDA

• Keywords
• education, teacher training, technology, ICT, ITE
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2010 The Authors
• Depositing User
• Pete Bradshaw