In 12 months, you will gain knowledge to become a teacher educator and successfully support teachers in your school to expand their skills.
Who is it suitable for?
To apply you must be a teacher who has, or is aspiring to have, responsibility for leading other educators to develop. You might support the development of all teachers in your school, trainees or those early in their career. Participants must be in, or have been in, a teaching role.
Example roles
- Head of teaching development/CPD
- Year leader
- Subject leader
- Key stage/phase leader
- Head of department
- Assistant/Deputy head
- Headteacher
- Head of ITT
- Head of department
- Second in maths
- 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