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Early Professional Development Support Programme 2013-14 The Role of the Principal The main responsibilities of the Principal in support of you as a Beginning Teacher are to: raise whole staff awareness of the requirements of the Beginning Teacher Programme and of whole school responsibility to support you monitor the Beginning Teacher programme in school to ensure high quality and consistent provision keep the Board of Governors informed of the support arrangements in place for you and any other Beginning Teachers in school ensure that there are effective mechanisms in place to support you through the requirements of EPD in particular and as a member of the staff team in general, e.g. adequate time and resources ensure that your Teacher Tutor and other key staff have adequate time to work with you and support you; facilitate your attendance at the ELB EPD INSET programme meet with you and your Teacher Tutor to help you identify development needs and discuss your progress encourage you by taking a close interest in your work including your EPD portfolios consider the potential of dissemination of the outcomes of your EPD PDAs for the benefit of whole staff development in school countersign, with your Teacher Tutor, the EPD Quality Assurance and Completion of PDA reports recommend to the Board of Governors, when appropriate, that you have, successfully completed the EPD stage and countersign the letter of completion with the Chair of the Board of Governors send a copy of the ‘Completion of EPD’ letter, when appropriate, to the GTCNI, Albany House, 3rd Floor, 73-75 Great Victoria Street, Belfast, BT2 7AF and to the Induction/EPD Team at the BELB. A copy of the letter should also be given to you for your own records celebrate within the school your successful completion of the EPD stage of the Beginning Teacher Programme 12 A Teacher’s Guide to the EPD Process July 2013 edition
Early Professional Development Support Programme 2013-14 The Role of the Governors In order for the Board of Governors to confirm, or otherwise, your successful completion of EPD, it will be important for them to: be informed of the programme which is in place in school to support you through the EPD stage of the Beginning Teacher Programme receive regular reports on your progress have access, as appropriate, to your EPD portfolio of evidence The Role C A of S the S ELB 13 The ELB Curriculum Advisory and Support Service (CASS) The Belfast Education and Library Board’s Induction and EPD team designs and delivers, in conjunction with other colleagues in the local and regional CASS teams, a dedicated programme of in-service training (INSET) for Beginning Teachers in the Induction and EPD stages. CASS provides: a differentiated local programme of in-service training based on the identified needs of BTs in each ELB area a coordinated regional in-service programme to meet the needs of BTs in primary, post-primary, special and nursery schools across all ELB areas school-based support to assist BTs in the implementation of the ‘plan, teach, review, reflect’ cycle school and centre-based training and support for Teacher-Tutors and Principals in the management and co-ordination of the Induction and EPD A Teacher’s Guide to the EPD Process July 2013 edition
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