• Advocacy PowerPoint. Use this presentation to convince colleagues and other partners of the benefits of placements.

• The Exchange document is an example of an advocacy document produced by MLA West Midlands that defines the potential opportunities for ITT Trainees in museums, libraries and archives in that region. You may want to use this document to stimulate ideas for your advocacy materials.

All partners should plan to embed their experiences from the placement into future teaching and learning strategies. Some of the organisations that have developed placements over the past few years have now embedded these experiences within their course structures. York St John University now offers placements in settings other than schools to all their Year 2 BA QTS students. These developments cannot happen immediately and take a period of advocacy, partnership building and risk taking.

Convincing colleagues and partners of the benefits is a key factor to developing successful placements that lead to long term partnerships.

ITT providers can plan to fully integrate the offer of placements in settings other than schools into their course structures by:

• advocating the benefits of placements in settings other than schools to colleagues and partners
• using the Evaluation framework to help you write a comprehensive report on the success of the placement
• Posting your case study on this website to share the learning with others

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