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Over 100 attend first North East Initial Teacher Education Conference
On Thursday 8 June, students from education and training courses across the North East gathered at the Radission Blu Hotel to take part in the first North East Initial Teacher Education Conference. The conference, which was jointly hosted
by New College Durham and Middlesbrough College, aimed to support Initial Teacher Education trainees in preparing for their careers in post 16 education. The event centred around addresses from
two keynote speakers. In the morning, Dr Paul Tully, Professionalism Manager at the Education and Training Foundation, discussed Transforming Professionalism in the Further Education and Training Sector. The afternoon session’s topic was Exploring the Golden Threads of Teacher Development delivered by Haili Hughes, the Head of Education at IRIS Connect and Senior Lecturer and Teacher Development Mentor Lead at the University of Sunderland. Throughout the day guest speakers from high profile education
establishments including Durham University, Areté Learning Trust, National Education Union and Teesside University delivered breakout sessions covering topics such as effective questioning, intelligent assessment design
and implementing positive behaviour management in the classroom. Event organisers Steve Bell and Sabrina
Ahmed-Qureshi were delighted with the positive feedback from attendees. Steve Bell, Head of School at New College Durham, said: “We worked hard to put together a
fantastic day of networking, collaboration and professional development and were able to attract an enviable variety of speakers from the world of further and higher education and training. We wanted attendees to be able to take something away that will inform their practice moving forward and judging by the feedback we have received we achieved our aim.” Sabrina Ahmed-Qureshi, Teaching and
Learning Mentor at Middlesbrough College, added: “We hope the North East Initial Teacher Education Conference will
become a key part of the annual Initial Teacher Education calendar and look forward to seeing the impact of the conference feed through into our North East ITE community of practice.”
uwww.newcollegedurham.ac.uk
National Theatre’s Speak Up Programme expands to work with 140,000 young people
Following a successful pilot phase that began in Autumn 2021, the National Theatre’s Speak Up programme will expand to work with nearly 140,000 young people in 55 secondary schools nationwide across the next three years. Speak Up is the NT's new national programme which sees young people,
who have been most affected by the pandemic, working in collaboration with local artists and teachers to co-create artistic responses to issues that are most important to them. Responding to the current challenges in schools, the programme aims to develop young people’s self-expression, wellbeing and personal skills, with an open-ended offer to make creative projects in their local area. The NT is collaborating with LUNG as Creative Associates to deliver the
training of artists and teachers and to develop the creative ambitions of Speak Up. LUNG is a campaign-led verbatim theatre company which works closely with communities nationally to shine a light on political, social and economic issues in modern Britain to ensure hidden voices are heard. Speak Up is taking place in selected schools across Doncaster, Greater
Manchester (Salford, Wigan, Rochdale), Havering, Sunderland, Wakefield and Wolverhampton, with the project extending into additional areas in 2023. The NT’s current Theatre Nation Partnership organisations are Cast in Doncaster, The Lowry in Salford, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Sunderland Empire and Sunderland Culture, Theatre Royal Wakefield and Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. As part of the pilot with secondary schools across Wakefield, Sunderland
and Greater Manchester, students have taken part in a variety of creative sessions to empower them to tell their own stories and connect with each other and their local communities. Sessions have included creating a mural around the theme of equality and exploring storytelling methods through a variety of artforms such as film making, animation and stand-up comedy. Artists, partner organisations and young people have used the sessions to work collaboratively to design what Speak Up is going to look like for them in their schools for the next three years.
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www.education-today.co.uk Speak Up is generously supported by the Mohn Westlake Foundation
which shares the NT’s belief in the power of youth voice and working with young people to enable positive change in their lives, schools and local communities. Through a £3.3million grant to deliver the programme nationally, Speak Up will reach hundreds of thousands of students, with the majority of the funding distributed to partners enabling local employment of producers and artists.
uwww.nationaltheatre.org.uk/speak-up
Image (c) Tom Doona July/August 2022
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