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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 NPQ@jths.co.uk.
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 NPQ@jths.co.uk
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