What is it all about? The government is looking to improve the way teachers are supported in their first year in the job. Its November 2010 white paper The Importance of Teaching stresses the need to challenge and support teachers during this formative time and focus on rapidly improving their teaching skills. The new guidelines to emerge from this consultation will replace existing regulations for newly qualified teachers laid out in the document Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) Regulations 2008.
What are the main points? The government wants to update the guidance to include academies and free schools, and to give schools more freedom over the support newly qualified teachers receive. The consultation proposes to keep the current 10 per cent reduction in new teachers' timetables. Schools could also be given the option to reduce the year-long induction process for those who have experience of teaching outside the maintained school sector.
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