CETT for Inclusive Learning 

Adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LDD) have an equal right to receive high quality education and training as experienced by their peers without LDD. Those that teach or support those learners have for too long experienced both isolation and a lack of appropriate qualifications.

The CETT for Inclusive Learning is a partnership of organisations that brings together teacher educators, teachers, trainers, researchers and organisations with expertise in initial teacher training, continuing professional development, work-based learning, skills for life (literacy and numeracy) and LDD to provide a ‘source of expertise for those who teach or support learners with LDD’.  The lead partner in the CETT for Inclusive Learning is the School of Health, Community and Education Studies at Northumbria University.

There are five key areas of activity / themes delivered through the five operation groups drawn from the partners that the CETT for Inclusive Learning is engaged in: 

Accreditation, Progression, Quality Assurance

The key driver is quality improvement and the CETT intends to

• establish coherent, flexible and integrated progression pathways for both accredited and non accredited learning
• provide a forum for the sharing of quality improvement practice by drawing upon experiences and good practice to facilitate improvements in practice

 Information, Communication and Technology

The CETT is developing a central point of access to information and resources to support its activities. It will

• gather information to inform the databases to support the CETT activities
• develop communication strategies, including a website, to disseminate information and resources
• source and use technologies to support the learning process

 Learning Development and Resources

The focus is to support the building of capacity in teacher training, regionally and nationally, through the raising of standards in ITT and CPD and we will

• respond to national imperatives through the development and delivery of a range of endorsed awards
• identify gaps in current provision and develop CPD modules
• source and develop high quality resources to meet identified needs
• establish a Network for Inclusive Practice for all those teaching and supporting learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities

Mentoring and Work Experience

There are three strands to this aspect of the CETT’s activities in which we will: