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Gina Gretton works on both the postgraduate and undergraduate initial teacher education primary programmes at Liverpool John Moores University. She has had a long career as a local authority advisor and a freelance English consultant in primary education.
In England, the Teachers' Standards are often used formatively to guide quality improvement towards a final summative, quality assurance process which takes place to ensure that the standards have...
Continue reading blog postIt’s a declaration that every teacher educator has heard from their trainees: ‘I’ve passed all the teaching standards so now I am a teacher!’ The current structure of teacher education...
Continue reading blog post‘Would you do that in school?’ A question familiar to anyone who trains new teachers, but one without an easy answer. There often appears to be a divide between what trainees view as...
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