ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the development of a school-college partnership scheme at Goldsmiths’ College, London, during the period 1990-5.
The education of new teachers, in common with most vocational education, involves a complex process of preparation for the job and guided practice on the job. The partnerships between schools and teacher training institutions that have developed in England and Wales during the 1990s bring together experienced teachers, student teachers and college tutors in close working relationships. As a result, what students must achieve to qualify as teachers has had to be made explicit. All parties must understand the new distribution of responsibility for the different areas and stages of training, and must also agree on criteria of assessment which are clear and unambiguous.
