Vision and Values

Exchange Teacher Training is an innovative school-based programme – following our two-day induction conference, you will be fully immersed in classroom practice. With weekly training and expert mentoring, you will be well supported to thrive in a programme designed by national experts and highly effective teachers drawn from leading trusts in the North of England.  

All our teacher training courses lead to QTS (Qualified Teacher Status), a PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education) and 60 Master’s Level credits. 

Our vision is to recruit, train and retain the best, and it begins with exemplary initial teacher training. 

We believe that every child in every school has a right to high quality teaching. Too many pupils in the North of England do not achieve well in school. Disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils lag behind their peers at primary with the gap widening at secondary.  The relationship between parental wealth and background, and children’s educational outcomes is particularly strong. Teaching is the profession that can break that link.  Our vision is to recruit, train and retain the best, and it begins with exemplary initial teacher training. The economic future prosperity of our communities is inextricably linked to children’s aspirations and the quality of education.  

"It is teaching quality that has the biggest impact on pupil outcomes."

 

- Becky Francis, CEO Education Endowment Foundation 

Exchange Teacher Training holds itself to a set of core values that we aim to make evident in all of our work. These values mirror the professionalism and courtesy that our trainees experience with our local Delivery Partners and with your school-based colleagues. These are ambitious standards which we set for ourselves, but we feel they are applicable not only to us but to anyone involved in education, who wants to influence the lives and prospects of young people.