I agree entirely. Making teachers aware of heritage and its educational potential at ITT is essential. The climate though is hardly helpful to us at the moment. ITT is increasingly school based and time in college to teach about museums or heritage is very limited. It would of course help if TT institutions had a more open approach to admissions onto PGCE courses. There is a significant number of colleges and universities that refuse to accept archaeology graduates for instance onto PGCE courses!
Barriers to trips out of school is a long-running issue, especially at secondary level. The costs of travel are perhaps one of the main barriers now and some sites are willing to pay for the school's travel costs to ensure schools can make visits to them. Nice if you have the money to do this!
Don Henson
Education Officer
Council for British Archaeology
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From: Scaife Sarah [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 05 February 2003 11:05
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Subject: museums & initial teacher training
It was interesting to see Vicky Woolard's e-mail and I've contacted the teacher education mailbase about our ITT plans.
We're just beginning a limited teachers' needs analysis in relation to the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site. We (of course) feel that museum and site visits are a unique experience where children can find deep and memorable insights, and teachers can renew and refresh their own understanding through contact with site-based professionals. The fear is that teachers face increasing barriers to making such trips out of school, and any support given at ITT stage must be positive..
Any of your thoughts /experiences on this gratefully received.
Sarah Scaife
Research Officer
Community & Education Team
Hadrian's Wall Tourism Partnership
(I should explain that HWTP is a partnership of museums and other agencies which own/manage the various parts of the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site. The HWTP Community & Education Team has a specific wall-wide brief to co-operate with and build on the strengths of individual sites and education officers employed by the various parters. We do not set educational policy or programmes for the indivdual sites or organisations.)
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