In this Newsletter:

1. Message from the Teaching School Hub Team
2. Early Career Framework
3. Appropriate Body
4. National Professional Qualifications
5. Initial Teacher Training 
6. Head Teacher Advocate 
7. CPD Opportunities

This half term, we will be holding some drop-in clinics for all stakeholders for ECF and AB (where a member of the team will be on hand to support you with any questions or problems) on the following dates:

• Tuesday 7th May 16:00-16:30
• Tuesday 21st May 16:00-16:30

• Monday 10th June 16:00-16:30
• Friday 14th June 12:30-13:00
• Tuesday 18th June 08:30-09:00

Best wishes for this half term.

Early Career Framework: Emily Stallard 

 Appropriate Body: Billie Stewart & Emily Stallard

  National Professional Qualifications : Billie Stewart

Funding for Autumn 2024

Scholarship funding to cover the full cost of NPQs will be available to teachers and leaders from:

• 50% of schools with the highest proportion of students who attract pupil premium funding.
• 16-19 education settings identified as having high disadvantage.

• NPQ Leading Primary Maths
• NPQ SENCO (not restricted to SENCOs – also available to existing or aspirant senior leaders)
• NPQ for Headship
• NPQ Early Headship Coaching Offer (if you are/have done the NPQH and are in the first 5 years of headship)

 Funding for Spring 2025 has not yet been announced.
 
Existing Cohorts
For information about dates and times of sessions for the Autumn 2023 and Spring 2024 cohorts, please visit our website.
 
Autumn 2024 Cohorts
Registrations are not yet open for the Autumn 2024 cohort, but expressions of interest can be made here.

As always, if you have any questions please get in touch.

Billie

 Initial Teacher Training: Steve Dixon

ITT Delivery
Our current cohort of trainees have now completed broader school experiences, gaining valuable insights into the brilliant work done by so many schools, specialist providers and all staff within them in supporting children and young people in so many different ways. It is fantastic to have such a range of expertise in the region - if this is something you would like to find out more about or become involved with in the future, we would love to hear from you:
https://forms.office.com/e/2g0icdHgmj
 
ITT Recruitment
There has been a lot of media coverage about recruitment into teaching recently which can make us lose sight of what a wonderfully rewarding profession this is. We are on a mission to make sure this message is also shared, and to explore different ways we can enable a wide range of people with so much to offer a pathway into the classrooms. We have a number of upcoming information events and 'taste of teaching tours' coming up over the next few weeks. Further information about these can be found here: 
https://teachingschool.tgacademy.org.uk/news-events/scitt/
 
Our next online information event is on Tuesday 16 April, starting at 5.30pm and running until 6.30pm - anybody interested can register for this directly here:
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b622034-9f28-4251-85ce-39fb7895e289@10664595-1ff2-4d18-94f5-27e5097d93fd
 
We are also running a specific online information event for anybody working in a support/voluntary capacity in schools who wants to find out more about training to be a teacher. This event will be on Wednesday 17 April starting at 4.00pm and finishing at 5.00pm - please forward this registration link to any staff who may be interested:
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/94ac3d24-196b-4ce1-919d-655005df51f8@10664595-1ff2-4d18-94f5-27e5097d93fd
 
As always, for any general enquiries about teacher training, please contact us using the usual channels or by using this link: https://forms.office.com/e/2g0icdHgmj
 
Steve

 Head Teacher Advocate: Helen Dunnico

During the Spring Term I was able to meet with many HT groups to share information about the changes to ITT that are coming into effect this September.  The biggest implication for schools is around mentoring. 

Here are some key points that you need to know:

• Every ITT provider is required to plan and deliver a bespoke evidence-based structured mentor training programme.
• The training should take up to 20 hours.
• All school-based mentors are required to engage with the training.
• Across the West Midlands, ITT providers have worked collaboratively to plan the first 7 hours of training (Tier 1) which covers the generic principals of mentoring.  This means the Tier 1 training can be transferred across these providers and will not have to be repeated if schools are hosting trainees from more than one provider. (See the list below)
• The remainder of the training programme is specific to the course trainees are following, so there is the potential for mentors to need to engage with at least part of more than one course if schools are working with multiple providers.
• Some training can be pre-accredited, if, for example, a mentor has completed the ECF mentor training, or they have undertaken NPQLTD.  However, each ITT provider needs to ensure that mentors have covered all aspects of the mentor curriculum.
• There is additional funding available for 2024-25 to support schools to release staff for mentor training.  This is up to £876 and is paid retrospectively.  We do not know if this will be available beyond next academic year.

 

Helen

 CPD Opportunities
 

Maximising the Impact of CPD

Tudor Grange Teaching School Hub and Tudor Grange Research Hub are collaborating to deliver a workshop for you to support with maximising the impact of your staff professional development.

What is covered?

• How to implement lasting change
• How to utilise NPQ -trained staff to support with trust/school improvement plans
• How CPD can support progression/ talent mapping
• How to plan for and measure impact successfully

Who is it for?

• Trust Leaders
• Head teachers/School Leaders
• Teaching and Learning Leads

How will it run?

• We are offering online and face to face options.  There is a nominal cost of £10 per participant for the face to face sessions but the online session is free.

Tudor Grange Research School is part of the Research School Network (RSN), a collaboration of 33 schools across England, supported by the Education Endowment Foundation. The RSN provide support to other schools by communicating research evidence and supporting the translation of this into practice through training and exemplification.

Online Training Tudor Grange Research School are holding online events in the coming weeks on Assessment & Feedback, Cognitive Science, CPD and Curriculum Development. Visit the website for full details and to sign up here: https://researchschool.org.uk/tudor-grange/events-and-training  

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