DfE has just announced a £2 million scholarship scheme for teachers.
Round one of the new competitive national scholarships scheme for teachers was launched on 27 June 2011.
The Schools White Paper, ‘The Importance of Teaching’ published on 24th November 2010 announced that a ‘competitive national scholarship scheme would be introduced to support the professional development’ of teachers. The scheme will be administered by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) and will give teachers ‘the opportunity to deepen their subject knowledge and renew the passion which brought them into the teaching profession.'
The aims of the scholarship scheme are to:
- encourage serving teachers to pursue knowledge independently to Masters level and beyond making it easier for teachers to access Masters level CPD in their subject area or to access expert seminars
- bring about a culture change to create expectations within the sector about the importance of scholarship throughout a teachers’ career
- share learning, knowledge and expertise across the school system.
Details on the TDA website of the PD scheme
Sadly GEOGRAPHY is not one of the priority areas, but SEN is, so there is some potential perhaps for exploring the use of Geography to support SEN pupils...
