English: Thank you, Presiding Officer. If I may take just a brief opportunity to outline that the Order sets out the functions that the Education Workforce Council will undertake in relation to the accreditation of initial teacher education programmes in Wales through the accreditation of the initial schoolteacher training committee, the remit for which will be set out in regulations that will be laid before the National Assembly subject to the approval of this Order today. The timing of this transfer of functions to the council will be aligned to the implementation plans for the new curriculum over the next three to five years. The arrangements for accrediting initial teacher training provision, however, will need to be in place by no later than the autumn of 2017 to ensure that all new courses of ITT delivered from September 2019 are accredited against reconceptualised accreditation criteria. In 2015, the teacher education accreditation group, chaired by Professor Furlong, was tasked with developing the reconceptualised criteria for accrediting ITT programmes in Wales. The aim of the new criteria is to improve the quality and consistency of provision and introduce a new approach to ITT in our nation. Central to the vision underpinning the new criteria for initial teacher training is the recognition that high-quality professional training and education necessarily involves a number of different modes of learning. Some dimensions of teaching can only be learned experientially while other forms of learning are intellectually based. However, the largest part of all teacher training and education should be based on learning that is both rigorously practical and intellectually challenging. I want to encourage a partnership approach in the design of future ITT programmes, with higher education institutions working in close collaboration with a number of lead partnership schools. If truly collaborative teacher training and education is to be achieved, then HEIs working with partner schools must take joint responsibility for the contribution to the programme. Also, Presiding Officer, I am pleased to announce a rare opportunity by which the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - the OECD - has offered their services as renowned leaders in education to work with our ITT partners through the development of a theory-based approach to ITT in Wales. This will be achieved via an international workshop to be held in the spring, during which an ITT framework will be designed, aimed at building capacity and a truly unique set of Welsh initial teacher education programmes. Finally, Members will note that the council will be able to charge a fee in connection with providing the accreditation service, which will be subject to a separate consultation undertaken by them. I would expect a fee structure to be in place by 1 September 2018.
Welsh: Diolch i chi, Lywydd. A gaf i fanteisio ar gyfle byr i amlinellu bod y Gorchymyn yn nodi swyddogaethau Cyngor y Gweithlu Addysg o ran achredu rhaglenni addysg cychwynnol i athrawon yng Nghymru drwy achrediad y pwyllgor hyfforddiant athrawon cychwynnol. Nodir ei gylch gwaith mewn rheoliadau a gyflwynir gerbron y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol yn amodol ar gymeradwyaeth y Gorchymyn hwn heddiw. Bydd amseriad trosglwyddo'r swyddogaethau hyn i'r cyngor yn cydfynd â'r cynlluniau gweithredu ar gyfer y cwricwlwm newydd yn ystod y tair i bum mlynedd nesaf. Fodd bynnag, bydd angen i'r trefniadau ar gyfer achredu darpariaeth hyfforddiant cychwynnol i athrawon fod ar waith erbyn hydref 2017 fan bellaf, er mwyn sicrhau bod yr holl gyrsiau HCA newydd a ddarperir o fis Medi 2019 wedi'u hachredu yn erbyn meini prawf achredu newydd. Yn 2015, rhoddwyd i'r grŵp achredu addysg athrawon, dan gadeiryddiaeth yr Athro Furlong, y dasg o ddatblygu'r meini prawf newydd ar gyfer achredu rhaglenni HCA yng Nghymru. Nod y meini prawf newydd yw gwella ansawdd a chysondeb y ddarpariaeth a chyflwyno dull newydd o gyflwyno HCA yn ein gwlad. Yn ganolog i'r weledigaeth sy'n sail i'r meini prawf newydd ar gyfer hyfforddiant cychwynnol athrawon mae'r gydnabyddiaeth bod hyfforddiant ac addysg proffesiynol o ansawdd uchel o reidrwydd yn cynnwys nifer o wahanol ddulliau dysgu. Gall rhai dimensiynau addysgu gael eu dysgu drwy brofiad yn unig, a cheir mathau eraill o ddysgu sydd â sail ddeallusol iddynt. Fodd bynnag, dylai'r rhan fwyaf o holl hyfforddiant ac addysg athrawon fod yn seiliedig ar ddysgu sy'n hollol ymarferol ac yn her ddeallusol. Rwyf i'n awyddus i annog dull partneriaeth o gynllunio rhaglenni HCA yn y dyfodol, wrth i sefydliadau addysg uwch gydweithredu'n agos â nifer o ysgolion partneriaeth arweiniol. Er mwyn cyflawni hyfforddiant ac addysg sy'n wirioneddol gydweithredol i athrawon, mae'n rhaid i Sefydliadau Addysg Uwch weithio gydag ysgolion partner i gymryd cyfrifoldeb ar y cyd am y cyfraniad i'r rhaglen. Hefyd, Lywydd, rwy'n falch o gyhoeddi cyfle prin o ran y ffaith bod y Sefydliad ar gyfer Cydweithrediad a Datblygiad Economaidd - yr OECD - wedi cynnig ei wasanaethau fel arweinwyr nodedig ym myd addysg i weithio gyda'n partneriaid HCA trwy ddatblygu dull o gyflwyno HCA yng Nghymru sy'n seiliedig ar theori. Caiff hyn ei gyflawni drwy gyfrwng gweithdy rhyngwladol a gynhelir yn y gwanwyn, pan fydd fframwaith HCA yn cael ei gynllunio, gyda'r nod o feithrin gallu a chyfres wirioneddol unigryw o raglenni addysg gychwynnol i athrawon yng Nghymru. Yn olaf, bydd yr Aelodau yn nodi y bydd y cyngor yn gallu codi ffi am ddarparu'r gwasanaeth achredu, a fydd yn destun ymgynghoriad ar wahân ganddyn nhw. Byddwn i'n disgwyl i strwythur ffioedd fod ar waith erbyn 1 Medi 2018.