We’re pleased to announce our partnership with education charity, Ambition Institute, to deliver the new NPQ for Senior Leadership programme. This 18-month course helps participants develop their leadership knowledge and expertise, to improve outcomes for fellow teachers and pupils.
Benefit your school by implementing the latest evidence into leadership strategies, creating a pipeline of leaders that attract and retain teaching staff.
Ambition Institute’s Senior Leadership NPQ, gives you the chance to learn evidence-based school leadership and put it into practice. Focus on specific leadership challenges in your school or trust and amend your leadership strategy to improve it.
A series of six new and reformed NPQs have been developed, and the Senior Leadership programme sits within this series. Each programme shares a common language and framework to help drive improvement across schools.
Ambition Institute knows that schools’ and trusts’ schedules vary. Therefore, the programmes are designed with flexibility in mind, meaning you can complete your modules at a time that best suits you.
Through Steplab – the innovative personal development platform built for teachers, by teachers, you can access modules and practice activities to assist in boosting your learning quicker.
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This is a flexibly designed programme that you can easily fit into your schedule. Training is delivered in bite-sized sessions, to assist with knowledge retention, and allows you to learn at a time and pace that suits you.
Be supported in your next steps in your career.
Benefit from the latest evidence-based learning, which will inform you on the approaches that are proven to result in great teaching and leadership. See how it can improve your school and change lives.
Ambition Institute’s programmes are designed to teach practical knowledge that can be applied into your own school context. By providing models and examples that seek to make the links between theory and practice concrete, the programme supports you to improve your leadership skills.
Learn from a network of like-minded peers and share insights with colleagues in your own school setting.
Have confidence that all your educators will share a common language that will develop your school or trust, as the NPQs follow the same framework to build up the entire workforce.
Senior leaders gain the tools that will highlight specific areas of leadership that require improvement. You will learn the best practice to increase effectiveness – through teaching of theory, guidance towards evidence-informed decision-making and actioning positive change.
Immediately, participants will be immersed in the learning of evidence-informed practices. This will contribute to the development of proven strategies, that will improve teaching and pupil performance at your school.
Grow, support and identify future leaders of your school and create a culture of positivity, where teachers can develop and thrive.
Studies reveal that high-quality continuous professional development improves pupil outcomes, almost as effectively as having a teacher with 10 years’ experience in the classroom.
This programme develops your leadership skills and knowledge and covers the content listed in the Department for Education’s NPQ Senior Leadership Framework.
On this programme, you will learn how to:
The content is delivered through blended learning. This includes a mix of Covid-safe face-to-face conferences, real-time, interactive online sessions and self-guided modules you can complete in your own time.
You will put what you learn into practice in your school and can track your progress and get feedback as you go.
Note: programme content is subject to change*
An assessment window begins upon the completion of the 18-month programme and runs for three months. During 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 participants can sit the assessment twice, if they need to.
Completing the course is a requirement in order to qualify for the NPQ accreditation.
Ambition Institute will offer extra support, in the form of a webinar and live clinic, in advance of the assessment window.
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 are aspiring to be, a senior leader with cross-school responsibilities. For example, you might be an assistant or deputy headteacher, or a head of department or faculty.
If you are interested in registering for, or completing Ambition Institute’s NPQ for Senior Leadership, 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 are aspiring to be, a senior leader with cross-school responsibilities. For example, you might be an assistant or deputy headteacher, or a head of department or faculty.
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]
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:
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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.
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
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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:
