Recipero
Having recently acquired Ik Software, Recipero continues the work started in 2000 by Ik to provide every school in the United Kingdom the opportunity to build and maintain a website free of charge. Hundreds of thousands of school children have benefited over the years from this service but it would be for nothing without the continued support of the teaching community who so willingly give their time and energy to maintaining the school websites and involving pupils in the process.
Recipero have sponsored the provision of the Teaching Awards' website and are grateful for the opportunity to lend our support to the trust’s goal of recognising and rewarding teaching excellence. Great teachers enrich a pupil’s entire life and engender a thirst for knowledge and learning that impacts all of our lives and society as a whole. We’re immensely proud to have played a small part in the process of recognising this most worthy of professions.
More information about Recipero and our social and educational initiatives can be obtained at www.recipero.com
BT
BT is committed to helping everyone in the UK, understand and enjoy the benefits of improved interpersonal communication skills. Our current programme concentrates on helping pupils in primary and secondary schools to develop their communicatin skills through a range of resources including teacher support materials, award schemes, drama performances and workshops.
The Teaching Awards is an obvious choice for BT to continue with its dedicated support to education - good communication has always been at the heart of good teaching.
This sponsorship reflects BT's long-term commitment to education. We are now expanding the BT Education Programme to cover the f ull range of year groups in schools and to include parents and teachers. We are especially pleased to be sponsoring the Award for Teaching of the Year in a Primary School as there is a natural link between this and our own passion for driving initiatives which support the talking, listening and discussion elements of the national curriculum. We have already invested in children through our national programme of communications drama workshops and by supporting the Teaching Awards we are investing in education to pregare our children for the communication challenges of tomorrow.
For further information on BT in Education log on to the website at www.btplc.com/education.
The Guardian
The Guardian newspaper is committed to education and those working within it. Our support takes many different forms: we have an unrivalled reputation for our education coverage and were the firsst newspaper to introduce a dedicated weekly education supplement. This was redsigned recently to meet more closely the needs of teachers and now offers ideas for lessons based around events in the news, weekly review of the best web, CE-rom and book resources, as well as helpful advice for teaching practice.
Our website, Educaiton. Guardian.co.uk offers the latest, breaking education news, and - through Learnpremium, the country's leading e-learning service for schools - we are at the forefront of online learning.
We also have our own educational facility, the Newsroom; The Guardian and Observer Archive and Visitor Centre. Since it opened in 2002, more than 20,000 schoolchildren have participated in bespoke workshops designed to provide practical experience of making a newspaper.
The Guardian has sponsored the Teaching Awards since they were founded in 1998.
The Innovation Unit
We are delighted to be the sponsor of the Ted Wragg Award for Lifetime Achievement. The Innovation Unit works with policy-makers and practitioners to understand the process of innovation and how successful innovative systems work, in order to ensure that new ideas and practices that genuinely improve teaching, and make learning powerful for students, can spread easily around the system and be further refined.
Our aim is to encourage the development of an innovative, accountable education system which supports disciplined innovation wherever it has been generated. Currently we are doing this by promoting conditions in which innovation can be originated, brokering partnerships that have the potential to create solutions to learning challenges we have identified, and, in some cases, supporting local or national projects that we judge can improve learning for students.
We are working on large-scale projects such as Teachers' TV, the Leading Edge Partnership Programme and wiht the NCSL Network Learning Communities as well as a number of smaller scale projects involving groups of schools around the country. Currently we have links with around 10% of all schools in England.
You can find out more about our work by loggin onto www.innovation-unit.co.uk if you want to discuss innovative ideas or the process of innovation generally, then join our innovation Unit online communicty. We look forward to hearing from you.
National College for School Leadership
About the National College for School Leadership
The National College for School Leadership (NCSL) offers opportunities to develop the potantial of school leaders at every level and to enable schools to work collaboratively with other schools. We support the Teaching Awards because it underlines and celebrates the importance of excellent school leadership.
Our four goals are:
to transform children's achievement and well-being through excellent school leadership
to develop leadership within and beyond the school
to identify and grow tomorrow's leaders
to create a "fit for purpose" national college that offers school leaders the best possible service and support
NCSL programmes can be accessed across the country through a network of regional providers. School leaders can also access learning online and communicate with each other via the College's popular online community, talk2learn, which now has over 120,000 members and is open to all school leaders including headteachers, deputy heads and middle leaders, as well as teachers, teaching assistants and school bursars. The NCSL wesite offers a rich source of information about school leadership, with an extensive range of publications, many of them free, and the College's unique Leadership Library, a free online resource offering busy school leaders quick and easy access to practical resources on a range of leadership and management themes, including materials from Ashridge and Harvard Business Schools, and 50 Lessons.
For more information on NCSL visit our website at www.ncsl.org.uk or phone 0845 609 0009.
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force recognises the importance of education and is committed to providing initiatives which are in harmony with the national curriculum. We educate young people regarding such topics as leadership, citizenship, including self-discipline, social skills and integrity primarily through our Motivation Outreach Teams. Our education work also extends to providing schools with GCSE maths and science resources and touring the country with our RAF Maths and Science Workshop; both of which have proven successful and popular amongst schools.
Within today's RAF we also recognise the power of education for our employees. We provide comprehensive training and the opportunity to acquire new skills and qualifications that are of value throughout life. Emphasis is placed on professional teamwork, without which it would be impossible for the RAF to contribute to the security of the United Kingdon or fulfill the vital life-saving and peacekeeping tasks placed upon it. Achievement of these tasks requires teamwork; successful teams acknowledge and value the contribution of each individual.
Many of the qualities we value - leadership, determination, commitment, sense of purpose, self-discipline and teamwork - are evident in both nominees and Teaching Award winners. We applaud the achievements of all those nominated and are proud to be a sponsor of the Teaching Awards.
For more information please visit www.raf.mod.uk or www.rafcareers.com.
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is an independent, not-for-profit, membership organisation dedicated to raising achievement in secondary education. We have a membership of over 4900 schools and organisations. The SSAT is a registered charity.
The SSAT works with headteachers, teachers and students to encourage the development and sharing of effective and innovative teaching and learning practice, driving improvement in schools to raise standards and achievement. In practice, headteachers and teachers design, lead and deliver our programmes and activities as far as possible and headteachers steer our work.
Through our networks, eight key areas of work are at the heart of everything we do: Achievement; Community; Continuing professional development; Innovation; Leadership; New technologies; Specialism and 14-19 education.
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is delighted to sponsor the Teaching Award for Outstanding New Teacher of the Year.
SSAT are sponsoring the award to acknowledge how important excellent teachers are in helping every child to succeed. It has demonstrated its commitment to working with and developing excellent practitioners through the Lead Practitioner programme and leadership programmes for newly qualified teachers and Developing Leaders (for teachers in their first 5 years of teaching). All these practitioners share their knowledge and skills with others.
Chief Executive Liz Reid said "We know that outstanding teachers change lives. They inspire and challenge students of all abilities. They set high standards and raise aspirations. They have a relentless focus on improving their own performance in the classroom and are committed to sharing with others. They enjoy working with young people and nothing gives them more pleasure than seeing them succeed."
The SSAT would like to wish good luck to all Teaching Awards finalists, many of whom are working at affiliated schools.
For more information please visit www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk
The Training and Development Agency for Schools
The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). It also has a close working relationship with the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).
The TDA has a critical role in developing the government's committment to creating a world class education system in which every school is a good school and every child acheives their potential. Our principal aim is to secure an effective school workforce that improves children's life chances. In order to achieve this, our guiding vision is; developing people, improving young lives. We benefit schools in three key areas: securing the supply of the school workforce, supporting the development of the school workforce and supporting the modernisation of the school workforce.
The TDA is delighted to sponsor the Award for Teaching Assistant of the Year at a time when the number and quality of the wider school workforce is at an all time high. We recognise that well-trained and committed support staff is key to raising standards and giving children a better start in life. We ensure schools are equipped to fill their vacancies with the right people and that there is a continuous flow of fresh talent in schools. The TDA continues to develop innovative ways to bring quality graduates and career changers into schools, particularly to support teaching and learning in mathemathics, science and modern languages.
More information about the TDA is available at www.tda.gov.uk.
People seeking information about the rewards of a career in teaching and the various training routes should visit www.teach.gov.uk or call the Teaching Information Line on 0845 60000 991 (922 for Welsh speakers, Mincom 01245 454343|).
Support staff enquiries: People interested in finding out more about the roles and further training for support staff should visit www.tda.gov.uk/support.aspx or www.skills4schools.org.uk or contact the Support Staff Enquiry Line (0845 600 2944).
BETT 2008
BETT is the world's leading educational ICT event, taking place on 9-12 January 2008 at Olympia, London. Attracting over 600 educational suppliers and close to 30000 visitors, BETT brings together the global teaching and learning community for four days of innovations and inspirations.
BETT 2008 is the place to see exciting ideas, the latest technology, practical solutions that can have an immediate impact, and new ways to put ICT at the heart of education.
It is the only opportunity in the education calendar where you can see, touch and experience the best ICT products from the broadest range of educational ICT suppliers anywhere.
The Education Show 2008
The Education Show 2008 will take place in Halls 11 and 12 of the NEC Birmingham on 28 February – 1 March 2008.
Attracting over 16,500 educationalists, it is the UK’s leading educational resources event. It provides a showcase for teachers from all levels and specialisms to review, test and compare the widest range of resources. For educators dealing with pre-school to further education, there is no other show like it!
The following Zones will return to the Show in 2008:
There is also the CPD Seminar Programme, which delivers inspirational and practical sessions by teaching practitioners and experts. Covering every subject area and every level of education, they will provide practical insights, examples of best practice, and thought-provoking ideas.
Campaign for Learning
The Campaign for Learning (CfL) is working for a society where:
The Campaign for Learning is an independent charity promoting learning in the family, schools, prisons and the workplace. For more information about the work that we do go to www.campaignforlearning.com
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