The Teaching Council has published its strategic plan for the three-year period, 2015 to 2017. The plan sets out the Council’s strategic goals for the next three years, looking at the wider context for those goals. It provides strategic guidance for the areas of registration, teaching, learning and research, and fitness to teach.
The plan sets out four strategic goals to be achieved over the period of the plan. These goals deal with stakeholder engagement, developing and promoting standards for teacher education, and ensuring the achievement of standards through effective registration, leading the enhancement of a culture of professional learning, and ensuring that the development of Fitness to Teach processes further enhances public confidence in the process.
On the topic of stakeholder engagement, the plan states:
The Council is here to reassure and to challenge. It seeks to reassure parents and pupils as to the quality of teaching and learning that they can expect in schools. It seeks to support and reassure the profession so as to enable teachers to embrace the opportunities that our work offers them. The Council also endeavours to challenge teachers, parents, pupils and all stakeholders to enhance their ways of working together to further enhance that quality over time. The Council acknowledges that it has a role to play in facilitating the professional conversations that will be required between the various stakeholders in order to bring this vision to fruition. Crucial to this is the support and development of a new language that accurately reflects our more developed understanding of this complex profession.
The Council aspires to ongoing improvement in all that we do.
Click here to download Strategic Plan 2015-2017
