Is your school working with a local ITT provider?
Help Train Tomorrow’s Teachers – Schools can make a big impact
Working with an Initial Teacher Training (ITT) provider is a great way to strengthen your school. Hosting trainees brings extra adults into classrooms, gives pupils more support, and helps you build a pipeline of talented teachers for the years ahead. It’s also a great way to develop your staff – mentors receive training and experience that supports their career progression… and in addition, schools receive a payment for each trainee they host.
Recruitment in our area is strong, which means more trainees are already starting placements. Local providers – including Five Counties SCITT, universities, the National Institute of Teaching, and other national organisations – are continuing to look for schools to partner with. By getting involved, you’ll play a vital role in shaping the next generation of teachers. We would be happy to talk to you or your school, or those wishing to apply about the various routes into teaching (and there are many!), or about managing and organising placements.
You may be working with one ITT provider currently but sticking with only one could potentially limit the range of specialist subjects and routes that you are involved with. Trainees from different providers can bring different subject-specialisms into a secondary school for example, particularly useful if you have struggled to fill a gap and had to use non-specialists, so do consider diversifying your partnerships to maximise your pipeline of trainees and future teacher pool. In primary or specialist settings, you could have trainees on different types of routes, such as those with an Early Years, music or SEND specialism adding capacity at different times of the year.
Even if you can’t offer a long placement, there are plenty of other ways to help. You could provide a short or specialist experience, invite trainees to observe lessons, or run school experience days for prospective applicants. These opportunities showcase your school, they boost your reputation as an organisation which values training and life long learning, and can help with future recruitment.
Promoting teaching as a respected and rewarding career in your community is another powerful way to make a difference. Every school that supports ITT contributes to the national goal of training 6,500 additional teachers – and helps secure the future of education in our region.
Whether you would like to explore hosting a trainee, offering a short experience, running a recruitment into teaching event, or simply to find out more, we’d love to hear from you.
Contact us today to explore some of these ideas: info@fivecountiesalliance.co.uk