We make use of shared google forms to coordinate our placements and to identify opportunities for collaborative CPD and support.

INTRODUCTION

The ancient wisdom of divide and conquer has inadvertently, or by design, reached its zenith in the educational universe. Universities, Schools and people divide the world into isolated silos of thinking...categories, subjects, themes, specialisms, expertise. The connections, concurrencies and resemblances are missed. The differences are identified and magnified. We are divided. We are conquered.

HYPOTHESIS

If the education of children, students, parents, teachers, researchers, doctors and professors was considered, in general, as a connected conception of human ‘being’, what might that look like? What might that achieve? Hypothesis...lots of good stuff.

MATERIALS

1. Little Green Junior School staff

2. Developing Brunel Three Rivers Hub: Six schools staff and communities

3. Brunel University students, mentors, ITT dep’

4. Brunel University Research Dept and valid research status

5. Three Rivers Student Council Forum

6. National and International Educational Organisations - UKLA BERA, ILA etc.

PROCEDURE

1. Brunel Three Rivers Hub sets up and students placed.

2. Training opportunities identified for students, teacher mentors, teaching communities concurrent with University lectures and training and school’s own CPD plans.

3. Experts lead training with all willing participants (lecture or school CPD or student ITT session from Hub - or all together as the same thing)

4. Hub develops a teaching/student network to structure this approach and offer facilitation and leadership opportunities to key identified leaders as well as ‘action research’ programs for developing staff (and students?)

5. Brunel Research identifies valuable projects...and guides specific projects...all projects can be connected to Impact Research initially - common cross-institute focus.

6. Three Rivers Student Forum can act as a wider network opportunity to engage children as learners with their own impact research around curriculum learning. Currently 16 state primary schools 3,500 children - agreed to focus on ‘Curriculum’ for 2021-22.

7. All participants develop greater knowledge, awareness and oracy of and for learning through the process evidenced by the impact measures developed...all developing as leaders of learning within a community of learners.

DATA: TBC.

CONCLUSION: The undiscovered country. 

Key positives:

Over the year, schools shared the load of differently prepared students and supported each other in supporting these students - One school stepped in when one schools could not fulfil a placement.

Two schools worked directly with Brunel to offer staff Leadership CPD - Little Green Leading x2 lectures to PGCE students and hosting PGCE students to an EYFS showcasing event.

The structures we have set up and historically drive linked to a now dissolved teaching alliance have made us the go to group of