Chartered College/ Chartered Teacher Status

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Does anyone on here have any thoughts on the Chartered College or about the idea of CTeach status?

Just interested in gaining an impression of how the profession feels about it really.

I'm not paying just to get another magazine I won't have the time to read posted through my door.

I'm not paying just to get another magazine I won't have the time to read posted through my door.

Am doing I obviously feel quite strongly about it!

I've only heard about the Chartered College from Twitter. No idea what they actually do.

I am a member - mainly to make it look like my job role ahs some purpose. My school paid...

To be fair to them, the magazine is good. It smells like a White Stuff catalogue. So now we know where the fee went!

They are encouraging people to pay £450 to undergo CTeach status accreditation which takes about 18 months and seems like a lot of work, including 'meet ups' on Saturdays.

Presumably Fffion will come on here and tell me I am lazy but I can't see too many teachers being drawn to this.

It's another of these mock professional set-ups, isn't it, coupled with an incentive to be labelled a super- advanced skills-excellent-teacher. Every now and then a new scheme comes around, and dies a quiet death. I won't be looking into this one or the next.

You could be right about this cynderella : it's also very metropolitan. Its tentacles are not stretching very far.

That said, its aims to put CPD and research at the forefront are noble.