LJMU & City Unity College Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education Welcome • Dream • Plan • Achieve Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education Dream • 2007: Athens and LJMU- Harris & Mike • Partnership Programme • Create an excellent learning opportunity for Greek students Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education Plan • Several models: not all successful • Genuine interaction and discussion between all partners. • First programme Postgraduate Certificate in Dyslexia and MA in Special Educational Needs: Today’s focus. Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education Achieve • 120 + students completing the programme • 90 % + achieved PG Certificate in Dyslexia • 25+ MA many at Distinction level (English !!!) • Anticipate 90% success rate for MA Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education Celebration and Progression • Two day Pedagogical Conference • Celebrate and share insights on Special Educational Needs • Science & STEM & Astro-Physics – pedagogy, links and teacher education • Start the new “Dream”. Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education Welcome to the day • • • • • • • Colleagues Outline of day one: Professor Phil Vickerman: The Context Dr Barbara Pavey Lunch & Networking Workshops: Network , talk about working together Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education LJMU • Who are we? – An outstanding modern civic university – delivering solutions to the challenges of the 21st Century • University Mission Statement • The University is a vibrant community for learning and knowledge where staff and students work together in an active and supportive partnership providing opportunities to enrich students, partners and wider society through education, training, research, scholarship and knowledge transfer. Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education • A University building on success and committed to its students and communities • Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) is a large, modern university located in the north west of England. It is one of the largest UK universities with more than 24,000 students in Liverpool and approximately 4,500 are international students studying overseas. Our staff and students are recruited from over 90 countries world-wide, and our teaching, research and consultancy span three continents. Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education League Tables • The University is one of the leading research-active contemporary institutions in the UK, with, for example, 90% of research in engineering rated 'world-leading', and is ranked: • In the top 4 of post-1992 UK Universities for the following disciplines: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, SportsRelated Studies, General Engineering, Architecture and Built Environment, Physics, Anthropology, Biological Sciences and Computer Science and Informatics (UK Research Assessment Exercise 2008) (RAE 2008). Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education Awards and partners • One of the top 20 UK universities for the impact of research, being awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2005 in recognition of the University’s excellence in Astronomy and Public Engagement in Science. • In the top 100 of in world universities under 50 years old (Times Higher Education 100 Under 50, 2012). • In the top 400 universities world-wide in 2012 (Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2012). Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education Partnership • Key feature of LJMU • Flexible approaches • Possible outcome of the 2 day conference further partnerships. • Mike Aiello: m.aiello@ljmu.ac.uk Faculty of Education Community and Leisure: Teacher Education