…an excellent, rewarding, and progressive profession, but you’re not sure where to start or of the routes available to you.
Well, we’ve got you covered. On this page, we clearly outline the current routes into teaching and achieving Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). We will introduce you to the John Taylor SCITT and provide the details for regional and national accredited teacher training providers. In addition, we will signpost you to useful resources from the Department of Education (DfE) and provide you with our contact details for further information.
What are you waiting for? The school bell is ringing!
…an excellent, rewarding, and progressive profession, but now you’re not sure where to start or of the routes available to you.
Well, we’ve got you covered. On this page, we clearly outline the current routes into teaching and achieving Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). We will introduce you to the John Taylor SCITT and provide the details for regional and national accredited teacher training providers. In addition, we will signpost you to useful resources from the Department of Education and provide you with our contact details for further information.
What are you waiting for? The school bell is ringing!
This means that even if your course provider is a university, you will still do placements in schools. And if your course provider is a school, you might still do your theoretical learning in a university.
The important thing to remember is that regardless of your course provider, all teacher training involves around 120 days of school placements in at least 2 schools.
SCITT – School-centred initial teacher training
QTS – Qualified Teacher Training
PGCE – Post-graduate Certificate in Education
PGDE – Post-graduate Diploma in Education
You can enrol for postgraduate teacher training either through a university or a School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) route, where you can gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Some providers also offer a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). With the John Taylor SCITT, you can train both full and part-time to gain both QTS and a PGCE.
Alternatively, from September 2025, in most subjects, you may have the option of completing a postgraduate apprenticeship. This is a work-based route that typically lasts 12 to 15 months and is available through universities and providers across the UK.
John Taylor has been a SCITT, providing high quality teacher training, since 2014 and we have gradually expanded our provision each year to include a variety of routes: Secondary subject and Primary (5-11 and 3-7 years) routes, salaried and unsalaried routes, QTS only, and the option to train part time.
We have a proven track record of recruiting and training talented teachers and retaining a large proportion of them in our local area due to the excellent reputation that we have built up over the years.
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Consider including a QR code to allow email recipients quick access (Parents, Local Community and Sixth Form students)
An example of an email footnote could look like this:
Do you know someone who is interested in training to teach? Send them this [insert QR code]
Include ‘Train to Teach’ signposting to local providers or DfE materials as an email footnote or signature strip.
Other practical and innovative approaches to recruitment
Use CEIAG lessons, events and articles to educate students and promote teaching as a career choice.
Put a banner on your school gates/perimeter fencing to show your community that they can access teacher training locally.
Develop a strong post-ITE training offer for staff considering career progression, ECF, NPQs, Curriculum Hubs, CPD for M3-M6 teachers, other CPD.
Share these myths and misconceptions-busters about teacher training and teaching to inform potential applicants about the profession.
Talent Spotting – Promote routes into teaching for suitably qualified staff (e.g. TAs, Technicians, Librarians, non-teaching pastoral or DSLs) via Salaried routes, Apprenticeships, Undergraduate or Post-graduate pathways.
Facilitate sessions for ITE providers on specialist areas and fundamental concepts in education (typically 1.5 – 6 hours).
Offer whole-year placements (e.g. to trainee A in Autumn & Summer Terms and Trainee B in the Spring term) with mentoring.
Offer longer ITE programme placements (typically 12-20 weeks) with mentoring of trainees.
Offer shorter ITE programme placements (typically 8-12 weeks) with mentoring of trainees.
Offer Intensive Training & Practice (ITAP) placements to ITE providers (typically 1-2 days) to allow trainees to observe practices and apply learning.
Offer enhanced placements (1-5 days) as part of an ITE programme, focussing on a phase, type, or specialist area of education (e.g. PRU, Special School, EYFS, Post-16).
Offer ‘School Experience’ tasters (typically 0.5 or 1 day) to potential applicants.
Register as a school on ‘DfE Apply’ as a ‘location’ for potential applicants to find/search train to teach providers in close proximity to their postcode.
Share positive stories, case studies and testimonials of colleagues and ex-trainees (associated with your school), showcasing career progression, opportunities and CPD.
Follow and share content on your school accounts from these below to reach your community:
ITE providers in the West Midlands
Connect with ITE providers in the West Midlands – click here to access a map of local and national Accredited providers.
Connect with ITE providers on social media from the districts covered by the John Taylor Teaching School Hub region or in the immediate surrounding districts:
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Promote the Department for Education’s train to teach recruitment events
Follow and share content on your school accounts from these below to reach your community:
ITE providers in the West Midlands
Connect with ITE providers in the West Midlands – click here to access a map of local and national Accredited providers.
Connect with ITE providers on social media from the districts covered by the John Taylor Teaching School Hub region or in the immediate surrounding districts:
