Young people face significant barriers without adequate literacy skills and are likely to struggle to progress their overall education as a result. Become an expert in literacy and leadership to help inspire success. Skills in leading literacy enable young people to benefit from the curriculum and to reach new achievements.
Learn essential knowledge and skills that can lead pupils to success with this new, fully funded NPQ. Become a leader of high-quality literacy development and teaching in your school.
The latest research influences this course and helps you put your learning into practice. You’ll be taught alongside fellow literacy leaders with similar responsibilities.
This is a new National Professional Qualification (NPQ), developed by the Department for Education (DfE). Each of the new NPQs share the same common language and framework, helping to drive improvement across educational settings.
Minimal disruption to your working schedule and no project work included, this NPQ is designed to suit your timetable.
Accredited NPQ provider
You will have the ability to support all children within your school with their literacy and give access to high-quality literacy education.
Exceed in literacy leading. You’ll develop a thorough understanding of how literacy can be improved in your subject, phase and school, using the latest evidence-based research.
Connect with fellow literacy leaders, share your experiences and build a strong support network.
This programme can be completed in small chunks that work around your existing schedule.
Apply theory to your school context and gain practical knowledge.
Give every young person the opportunity to develop and gain literacy skills that will help them succeed across all curriculum areas, by expertly championing literacy leadership in your school.
Improve literacy across your school and all subject areas. Participants will work on learning and applying literacy leadership, to support pupils and help colleagues achieve this too.
All NPQ courses are aligned. Your literacy leaders will benefit from an evidence-based framework with a common language, which they can inform their colleagues on.
The NPQ gives literacy leaders a comprehensive and accessible evidence base. From this, you can bridge the gap between the theory and the application of knowledge, to improve literacy in your school and outcomes for pupils.
Align your staff’s professional development with wider school improvement priorities, and ensure all pupils have access to high quality literacy support in their education.
This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification: Leading Literacy Framework.
On this programme, you will learn how to:
Each of the six courses within the programme is taught through a combination of independent self-study modules, a facilitated live clinic, and a peer-led community session. The programme starts with a one-day live conference.
Note: programme content is subject to change*
This NPQ requires no project work.
At the end of the 12-month programme, the assessment window begins and runs for three months. During this period, you’ll be assigned an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which you respond to a short case study.
In advance of the assessment window, you will have the opportunity to join our webinar and live clinic to support you.
Completion of the programme is a requirement to qualify for NPQ accreditation.
All teachers and leaders employed in state-funded schools, as well as those employed in state-funded organisations that offer 16 to 19 places in England can access a fully-funded NPQ. This applies to all Specialist and Leadership NPQs.
In some cases, staff without a Teaching Reference Number (TRN) can also qualify for a fully-funded NPQ (e.g. a non-teaching pastoral colleague). Contact us and we will support you through the steps required to register and access this funding.
Access to funding remains conditional on successful validation of participants’ registration information against Teaching Regulation Agency records, so you must ensure that the information supplied to your NPQ provider matches your teacher record.
If you are not eligible for scholarship funding, you can still undertake an NPQ and should contact us directly to discuss your options.
To apply, you must be leading, or aspiring to lead, literacy in any phase of education. For example, you might be a head of literacy or literacy coordinator at your school or multi-academy trust.
If you are interested in registering for, or completing Ambition Institute’s NPQ in Leading Literacy, with the John Taylor Teaching School Hub, then please email [email protected].
If you are interested in completing an NPQ, but aren’t sure which one, visit our NPQ page.
To apply, you must be leading, or aspiring to lead, literacy in any phase of education. For example, you might be a head of literacy or literacy coordinator at your school or multi-academy trust.
If you are interested in registering for, or completing one of the Ambition Institute’s NPQs, with the John Taylor Teaching School Hub, then please email [email protected]
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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:
