In 12 months, you will gain expertise in behaviour management and discover how to create a culture where staff and pupils can thrive.
Who is it suitable for?
Someone who has, or is aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading behaviour and/or supporting pupil wellbeing in your school. Participants do not have to be in a teaching role to undertake this NPQ.
Example roles
- Pastoral lead
- Head of behaviour
- Assistant/deputy head
- SENCO/inclusion leader
- Head of year
- Safeguarding lead
- Class teacher
Our delivery partners and their programmes
Our national lead providers, Ambition Institute and Education Development Trust adheres to the National NPQ content framework. Specialist NPQs take around 12 months to complete, and as part of the application process you should select a preferred provider.
When studying for a specialist NPQ programme you will receive the following:
5 blocks of input over 12 months, based around the themes of:
- Leading improvement
- Underpinning principles
- Developing others
- Furthering your specialism
- Embedding into practice.
This includes:
- 2 x full day face-to-face (or online if needed) core training sessions facilitated by experienced senior leaders
- 4 live, 2 hour facilitated twilight webinars to cement and consolidate learning with your group
- A series of reading & video-based activities (self-study, online) for each of the 5 blocks – you can complete these at a time to suit you
- Diagnostic assessment activity for each block (self-study, online) – you can complete these at a time to suit you
- Support for final assessment.
- One full day conference – face-to-face / online
- 6 x online self-study ‘courses’ – one every six weeks
- Little and often approach, with self-study each week at a time which suits you
- 5 x after school ‘clinics’ over the 12 months
- 6 ‘community’ sessions – problem solving with peers
- Support for final assessment