Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies
Neil Puffett
Monday, June 6, 2016
Plans to improve teacher standards announced, positive response to "adoption party" pilots, and LGA call for council role in education, all in the news today.
Prospective teachers will have to sit tougher tests before they can begin training, University College London, it has been suggested. Stuttering affects around one in twenty children under the age of five, but there are currently no checks for it despite screening for communication problems at key stages, including school entry, being suggested by in Every Child Matters ten years ago. Professor Peter Howell who developed the new screening tool, said: “If we can identify children at risk of stuttering, then we can offer appropriate interventions to help them early on. Primary school is a key time in a child’s development and any help in tackling potential communication problems could make a big difference to the child’s life.”
Adoption parties have been suggested as a potential way of addressing the current “adoption crisis”. University College London, it has been suggested. Stuttering affects around one in twenty children under the age of five, but there are currently no checks for it despite screening for communication problems at key stages, including school entry, being suggested by in Every Child Matters ten years ago. Professor Peter Howell who developed the new screening tool, said: “If we can identify children at risk of stuttering, then we can offer appropriate interventions to help them early on. Primary school is a key time in a child’s development and any help in tackling potential communication problems could make a big difference to the child’s life.”