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Our Programme
Our research-informed programme will develop your skills and subject knowledge through focusing on what great teachers know, do and believe.
Following your two-day induction conference, you will be fully immersed in classroom practice from the very start of the academic year. Your training is structured into four phases:
- Prepare: in Placement A school (September – October)
- Develop: in Placement A school (November to Christmas)
- Embed: In Placement B school (January – Easter)
- Enhance: in Placement B school (April – July)
In each phase of the programme, you will typically spend one day per week attending centre-based training and four days in your placement schools, putting the theory you have learnt into practice. Training is delivered through a combination of face-to-face and online sessions held at a training venue local to you, our state-of-the-art conference centre in West Yorkshire, or via MS Teams.
You will be fully supported throughout by a team of specialists including, but not limited to: Exchange Teacher Training central team members; local delivery partners; a lead mentor; a school-based phase or subject mentor, and phase or subject lead, notwithstanding the regional and national experts delivering our innovative and engaging curriculum.
You will participate in the equivalent of four weeks of Intensive Teaching and Practice (ITaP) modules which will enable you to focus on daily practices that are key to promoting students’ learning, including behaviour for learning, oracy and vocabulary instruction, formative assessment strategies, and independent learning.
Our assessment of your progress comprises four Holistic Review Summaries (HRS), complementing our system of continuous progress review and development throughout our curriculum, to ensure you can evidence meeting the Teachers’ Standards and achieve Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
All of our teacher training courses lead to QTS, a PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education) and 60 master’s level credits. Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ Sheffield Hallam University delivers and awards the PGCE element of our programme. You will undertake two assignments throughout the year to gain the PGCE qualification.
Benefits
- Research-informed: Our curriculum is underpinned by the best available evidence, including the Model for Great Teaching (Great Teaching Toolkit Evidence Review) - the things teachers know, do and believe that research has shown to make the biggest difference to student learning.
- Theory into practice: Key learning will take place on a Monday at centre-based training, and you will then apply it in school throughout the week with support from your mentor.
- Integrated spiral curriculum: Our curriculum places the developing competence of trainees at its heart, reinforcing prior learning and offering multiple opportunities for you to refine and embed your practice.
- Practical: You will spend 39 weeks in a placement school immersed in professional learning and teaching practice.
- Fully supported: You will work closely with your phase mentor (primary) or subject mentor (secondary) – an experienced teacher with extensive knowledge and expertise in their phase/subject - to develop the skills required to help you become an inspirational teacher.
* In exceptional cases, for example where a trainee already has a PGCE, we offer the QTS-only route.