Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International

Relations and World Languages

HOMEWORK

Foreign Philology
Prepared by:
Alena Lobanova
Ramina Zholbarskhankyzy
 Plan
Demand in Scotland
The OECD report
Teacher education programmes in Scotland
Recruiting the required number of students for the
teacher education program
NASUWT's survey (2016)
balance between teacher demand and supply demand  supply

The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)

shortage of trained and qualified teachers Reasons:

•United Kingdom
-aging teaching workforce
•New Zealand
•United States -high levels of early career
•Australia burnout
•Netherlands -attrition
•Turkey

Quantitative teacher shortage has potential impacts on teacher quality

 Review of Teacher Education in Scotland (Graham Donaldson,
2010)

difficulties in attracting and retaining qualified teachers across the UK

Curriculum for Excellence
(2004)

Pros (+) Cons (-)

+ interpreters and co-creators - quite demanding on teachers
+ would be given more autonomy and - higher level of professional
+ flexibility development
- judgment in implementing
McCormac (2011)
• the importance of attracting and retaining well-trained teachers
• attractive career choice for qualified teacher candidates

Repulsive factors:
• teachers' low morale
• low salary
• long working hours

Scottish government (2016)  over £1 million fund

• develop teachers
• enhance teacher education
• teacher professionalism
• to minimize the imbalance between the supply of and demand for qualified
teachers
 To become a teacher in a
University-led
state school in Scotland
• a degree
• teaching qualification in the Initial
Teacher Education (ITE) program
All teacher training programmes

There are two ways to become school teachers in Scotland:

a four-year BEd undergraduate

one-year program PGDE
program or combined courses
(Professional Graduate
at a Scottish university (for
Diploma in Education)
example, the MEduc program)
The MEduc (Master of Education)

after four years of the fifth year is an

study obtaining a exploratory study in
pedagogical relation to teaching
qualification and learning
 Initial teacher 2016-2017 2016-2017 2017-2018 2017-2018
education Target Intake Target Intake
targets and intakes
Undergraduate Primary 710 756 710 774

Postgraduate Diploma in 1,230 1,248 1,186 1,259

Education (PGDE) Primary

Undergraduate secondary 187 169 187 170

Postgraduate Diploma in 1,350 1,198 1,750 1,226

Education (PGDE) Secondary

Undergraduate combined 210 220 225 228

degree
Total 3,687 3,591 4,058 3,657

New Routes 204

(provisional intake)*
Total 3,861

Table 1: Figures for recruitment into initial teacher education (ITE) in 2016 to 2018
(Scottish Government, 2017)
 Due to perceived low salaries for teaching
(Scottish Parliament Information Centre, 2017)
• a decline in the number of graduates choosing to enter teaching

The results from the NASUWT's survey (2016)

• over 400 Scottish teachers showed that 88% of teachers felt

that teachers' salaries were not competitive compared to other
professions
• and, 75% of teachers believe that people put off teaching
careers because of financial rewards
 • Imagine that you are a
school director who
needs new employees.
Case-study Present your ideas on
how to attract qualified
teacher candidates to
your school
 • Why quantitative teacher shortage
Question has potential impacts on teacher
quality?

• Why has it become difficult to

Question attract qualified teachers across the
UK over several years?

• What are the ways to become

Question school teachers in Scotland?