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| AdminHistory | The Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (and subsequent amendments), empowered the Council to advise the Secretary of State and others on matters including:
- standards of teaching;
- standards of conduct for teachers;
- the role of the teaching profession;
- the training, career development and performance management of teachers;
- recruitment to the teaching profession;
- the supply of teachers;
- the retention of teachers within the teaching profession;
- the standing of the teaching profession; and
- medical fitness to teach.
As part of this role the GTCE completed research on other bodies from England, the UK and internationally, including (where relevant) the experience of other professions. They also commissioned research to be undertaken by third parties. Policy advice was confirmed by Council, or from 2012 the Executive Committee under delegated powers, before being sent to the Secretary of State.
Eleven papers summarising the GTCE's advice on and evidence about teaching quality were published in July 2011.
During its lifetime the Council (or third parties on behalf of the Council) completed six surveys of teachers (2004-2010).
With the Centre for the Use or Research and Evidence in Education (Curee), the team produced digests of research into specific aspects of education, initially termed Research of the Month, and from 2009 Research for Teachers.
From 2007 to 2009, significant research and associated work was undertaken with the Office for Public Management into concepts of professionalism in teaching and associated values, leading to publication of the revised Code of Conduct and Practice for Registered Teachers on 1 October 2009.
Teacher engagement included various meetings series, the creation of three teacher networks, and the development of the Teacher Learning Academy.
Meetings, which supplemented those run by the communications team, enabled teachers to contribute to the development of GTCE policy.
There were also three teacher networks where the Council worked with teachers on areas of mutual interest:
- The Connect network, initiated in 2003, for teachers interested in expanding continuing professional development for their schools
- The Achieve network, initiated in 2004, for teachers with an interest in diversity issues
- The Engage network, initiated in 2005, for teachers in the first three years of their career. |