LATEST TIPD NEWS.....
Lucky West Sussex teachers spent February half-term 2007 in destinations as far flung as Pretoria, Nijmegen and Indiana, in the latest round of international group study visits, organised by the local authority and funded by the DCSF They were studying practice in Creativity, Teachers' Learning and Professional Development, and Social Inclusion and Behaviour Management.
This programme, launched 6 years ago and fully-funded by the DCSF, offers classroom teachers the opportunity to travel abroad for professional purposes and study outstanding examples of education practice in another country in Europe or further afield. Click here for programme details.
Visits are co-ordinated by the local authority, and so far over 250 West Sussex teachers from different schools around the County have been lucky enough to take part in a number of exciting international visits, and meet their opposite numbers in various host countries. So far, groups of West Sussex teachers have studied ICT in Denmark, Citizenship in Siberia, Gifted and Talented in Russia, Teaching and Learning Strategies in South Africa, Hungary, Romania, Las Vegas, India and the Netherlands, Behaviour Management in Mississippi, Indiana and Vienna, Thinking Skills in South Africa, Australia and Canada, Transition in South Africa and Vocational Education in Italy.
TIPD - What's in it for me?
By Marion Barker, Headteacher, Singleton CE Primary School
Opportunities for individual schools
As well as offering international study visits for local authority-wide
groups of teachers, the TIPD programme also enables up to 4 teachers from a single school to follow up links made during an
initial group visit. Click here for details. To view reports of recent school visits, please click on the links to individual
schools below.
- Las Vegas - February 2005 - Ashurst Wood Primary School
- Pretoria - October 2004 - White Styles Middle School, Sompting
To view reports on some of the West Sussex TIPD visits, please see the links below.
Many other
reports are available on the British
Council's website and on the Specialist Schools and Academies
Trust website.
For further details contact carolyn.gibbs@westsussex.gov.uk