http://hdl.handle.net/2428/13555 Search the Channel search http://arrts.gtcni.org.uk/gtcni/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2428/13561 Title: Collaborative Approaches to Preparing and Developing Effective Teachers<br/><br/>Authors: UCET<br/><br/>Abstract: This Occasional Paper is a working record of the symposium organised by the Universities Council for the Education ofTeachers (UCET) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate (HMI)and contains copies of the papers presented. It includes accounts of the discussion groups and plenary panel as they were noted at the time. In the Appendices are a list of indicative sources of relevance to thesymposium and a copy of the programme including the names of those who chaired and acted as note takers thereby helping inform this Paper. Its publication is a contribution to what UCET sees as a continuing debate about these issues and their implications for initial teacher education, continuous professional development and research in the four countries. http://hdl.handle.net/2428/13559 Title: Every Child Matters and Teacher Education<br/><br/>Authors: Kirk, Gordon; Broadhead, Pat<br/><br/>Abstract: This paper provides the basis for anelaboration of the modifications required if teachers and related professionals are to be fully prepared for, and supported in meeting, the challenges which ECM heralds for all who work with children and youngpeople.The study attempts to highlight the rationale for national policy, to tease out the many strands of the initiative, to discover how ECM was being interpretedat institutional level by the teacher education community, and, drawing on that welter of evidence, to offer a credible portrayal of teacher education in the new and rapidly changing context.