We’re pleased to announce that we are partnering with Ambition Institute, an excellent education charity, to deliver the new NPQ for Headship. Over a period of 12 months, participants on this course will develop and apply the knowledge that underpins expert school leadership, to become outstanding headteachers.
Benefit your school by creating confident teacher leaders, attracting and retaining staff and expanding your schools’ talents with a series of new, specialist NPQs.
Ambition Institute has designed this specialised NPQ, to assist in expanding your knowledge and expertise, to create an exceptional leader for your school.
Inspired by the latest evidence-based learning, this course informs you how to put findings into practice. You will train alongside other teachers with similar responsibilities, to advance your learning.
You can have confidence that all the educators in your school are building and developing their knowledge from the same evidence-based framework, as all NPQs are designed as a part of one series. With common language across the courses, participants can transfer knowledge to other colleagues.
Ambition Institute knows that schools’ and trusts’ need flexibility. Therefore, the programmes are designed with the freedom to be completed at a time that suits you best and fits in with your professional timetable. Through Steplab, the innovative personal development platform built for teachers, by teachers, you will have access to your modules and practice activities, allowing you to develop your learning quickly.
Accredited NPQ provider
Informed by the science of learning, the training is conducted on evidence-based practice. With evidence guiding the way, you will receive high quality professional development that is proven to work.
Progressing from a teaching role into a leadership role is a natural route, but there is a lack of training to build leadership skills. This programme fills that gap. With knowledge and insights that can make classroom teaching the best it can be, your leadership qualities will progress with your learning.
This programme is designed to be flexible. Meaning you can fit your learning around your schedule. Much of the work can be completed in short bursts to create minimal impact to your timetable.
You’ll get to share your experiences, learn from others and build a network, as you complete the course alongside other teacher leaders on the programme.
The new NPQ framework builds all courses from one another creating a ‘golden thread’ throughout the stages of a teacher’s career. All educators, from classroom teachers to leaders of multiple schools, are therefore able to build and develop their practice from the same evidence-based framework.
Upon completion of this programme, teachers will be able to confidently oversee staff development, which will lead to better teaching at your school and improved pupil outcomes.
Show confidence in your teachers’ abilities by investing in their development. Upon completion of the programme, participants are more likely to stay in their roles and work to nurture the next generation of teaching talent within your school.
The new specialist NPQs are designed to complement multiple career pathways, giving teachers more options at each stage of their career.
This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Leading Teacher Development Framework.
On this programme, you will learn how to:
The content is delivered through blended learning. This includes a mix of real-time, interactive online sessions and self-guided modules you complete in your own time. You will be encouraged to put what you learn into practice and track your progress as you go.
Note: programme content is subject to change*
Post-completion of the 12-month course, an assessment period will run for three months. In this time, participants will be assigned an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment, in which they respond to a short case study.
Every year, there are two assessment windows and, if needed, participants can sit the assessment twice.
Qualification for the NPQ accreditation does rely on the completion of the course.
Ambition Institute offers a webinar and live clinic, prior to the assessment window, to support participants.
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 a teacher who has, or is aspiring to have, responsibility for leading other educators to develop. You might support all teachers in your school, trainees or those early in their career.
If you are interested in registering for, or completing Ambition Institute’s NPQ for Leading Teacher Development, 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 a teacher who has, or is aspiring to have, responsibility for leading other educators to develop. You might support all teachers in your school, trainees or those early in their career.
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:
