We’re pleased to announce that we are teaming up with education charity, Ambition Institute, to bring the new NPQ for Headship to you. Participants will develop the knowledge that underpins expert school leadership, in just 12 months, and apply it to become outstanding headteachers.
Create confident school leaders, learn from the latest evidence and transform pupil outcomes.
Ambition Institute’s new National Professional Qualification (NPQ) for Headship, offers the opportunity to put evidence-based school leadership methods into practice and bring positive change to your school. It also creates the chance to tackle specific headship challenges in your school or trust.
Being one of a six-part series of new and reformed NPQs, this programme shares the same common language and framework that will help drive improvement across schools.
Schools and trusts vary in schedules and needs. For this reason, Ambition Institute programmes are designed with flexibility and can work alongside your existing role. You can complete the course when it best suits you and mould it around timetables. Through Steplab – the innovative personal development platform built for teachers, by teachers – your modules and practice activities will be available to learn from and return to, making your learning simple and efficient.
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Complete your work at a time that suits you and fit your learning around your timetable.
Evidence-based learning influences the entire framework of this programme. Therefore, all the knowledge you’ll learn is proven and shared, by other educators, across England.
Training is delivered in bite-sized chunks. No day is too long, and no training is excessive, so you can complete your day job effectively. Learning in short, sharp bursts is shown to increase knowledge retention.
Tackle the complexities and challenges of your role in a Headship, by developing knowledge and skills that will progress your practice.
Practicing new, healthy habits isn’t easy. However, with Ambition Institute’s dual modules, you can apply what you have learnt and connect theory to practice, which will help those habits stick. Insight modules capture the very best the sector has to contribute on a given topic and apply the ideas in the correct context.
This programme puts school-focus at the heart of its leadership knowledge, creating Headteachers who are equipped to establish a healthy culture and conditions where staff and students can thrive.
The framework for the new NPQ for Headship has been developed from the latest evidence of effective professional development for teachers and leaders, approved by the Education Endowment Fund (EFF).
Learning takes place with participants whose context is similar, meaning colleagues learn from others, and are facilitated by partners who know and understand different needs.
Ambition Institute’s NPQs are all aligned, meaning teachers and leaders share a common language and framework that will work together to drive school improvements.
Education Policy Institute research reveals that high quality professional development has the ability to improve pupil outcomes, almost as effectively as a teacher with 10 years’ experience can.
This programme develops your knowledge and skills in the 10 areas listed in the Department for Education’s NPQ Headship Framework.
On this programme, you will learn how to:
The content is delivered through blended learning. This includes real-time, interactive online sessions, Covid-safe face-to-face conferences and self-guided modules you can fit around your timetable. You will put what you learn into practice in your school and be able to track your progress and get feedback as you go. The programme also includes coaching and peer learning.
Note: programme content is subject to change*
An assessment period takes place on completion of the 18-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, participants will be granted an eight-day window in order to take an ‘open book’ style assessment, in response to a short case study.
Every year there are two assessment windows, and participants can sit the assessment twice, if needs be.
To qualify for the NPQ accreditation, you need to complete the course.
Ambition Institute offer extra support, in the form of a webinar and live clinic, in advance of the assessment.
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, or aspire to be a headteacher or head of school with responsibility for leading a school.
If you are interested in registering for, or completing Ambition Institute’s NPQ for Headship, 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, or aspire to be a headteacher or head of school with responsibility for leading a school.
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
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