Are you looking to register onto our Appropriate Body services? If so, you’re on the right page! Please find information about our sign up process, our experience, who can register with us, the roles and responsibilities of Appropriate Bodies, our offer and fees below.
If you need any further information, or have any questions, please download our flyer or get in touch.
Are you currently enrolled on our Appropriate Body services? If so, you can find additional information and resources by downloading our latest newsletter and regularly checking our Padlet for updates.
Step 1.
Register Early Career Teacher with the DfE
Step 2.
Register with EDT for the Provider-led induction
John Taylor has significant experience in Appropriate Body work.
We have been offering Appropriate Body services to schools since 2016, working annually with over 400 Early Career Teachers, not just taking care of their registration and validating a successful completion of the induction period, but offering informal support and guidance to schools and ECTs where problems have arisen or the ECT has been struggling.
Any school can access our Appropriate Body services. It remains the decision of the headteacher to choose their AB. As a Teaching School Hub we are increasing our capacity in anticipation of working with Early Career Teachers throughout East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Tamworth, Cannock, North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth and are excited by the opportunity of developing partnerships with all schools across our area. We have a reciprocal partnership with the Arthur Terry Teaching School Hub – North Birmingham to support ECTs that have trained with the John Taylor SCITT or the Arthur Terry SCITT and are teaching in schools in these TS Hub regions.
With the introduction of TS Hubs, the remit of an Appropriate Body has changed in line with recent reforms and the introduction of the Early Career Framework.
From September 2021 Appropriate Bodies will be responsible for:
In addition to our core roles and responsibilities, the Hub will:
Charges for the Early Career Programme will be based on the type of induction programme schools choose to follow for the Early Career Framework, as each of the three routes require different levels of fidelity checks and Quality Assurance.
If you have any questions, or wish to register an interest in becoming more involved, please email [email protected].
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An example of an email footnote could look like this:
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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.
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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:
Pre-populated posts:
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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:
