Entitlement

TRAINEES ENTITLEMENT

1. A coherent learning experience within the Partnership
2. Opportunities to develop as a member of the teaching profession
3. Status within school and involvement in aspects of school life
4. Access to a variety of practice and teaching experience
5. Opportunities to observe and be observed while teaching
6. Support from a school based tutor and other staff as necessary
7. Quality time and privacy for mentoring
8. Support in reviewing the trainee teacher's progress and in personal action planning
9. Access to subject specialists/tutors
10. Access to appropriate resources, information and documentation
11. Specific training support including support for self-study and school-based research
12. Full membership of University of Bedfordshire, including use of their facilities, VLE and Library
13. Full access to University of Northampton Library

PROVISION OF GOOD QUALITY TRAINING

To enable Trainees to obtain:

1. PGCE and/or QTS qualification
2. Access to secondary schools providing a full range of experiences
3. Immediate access to high quality teachers and trainers
4. An awareness of up to date national and local expectations
5. Personal and social development
6. An experience of extra-curricular provision
7. Thorough involvement in the day to day life of their practice schools

AGE RANGE

All trainees will train to work effectively with pupils in the 11 to 16 age range.  Trainees will also have the opportunity to experience

• Post 16 Education
• KS2 Work in Primary Schools during the start of the course (Primary Placements)

SUBJECT SPECIALISMS

Trainees will specialise in:

• Mathematics
• English
• Science
• Design Technology  - Resistant Materials / Textiles / Food Technology

These subject areas have been chosen because:

• OFSTED indicate they are strengths within the partnership schools
• Technology College status at the Lead School provides experience beyond that of many secondary schools in the Technology College core subjects of design technology, science and mathematics
• There is a national shortage of Mathematics, Design technology, and Science Teachers
• There is a regional shortage of English Teachers.

 OUTCOMES OF THE TRAINING

The trainee will be able to:

• Act in a professional manner
• Teach in a wide range of high quality schools and deliver effectively to pupils with different needs
• Work in partnership with teachers
• Teach in shortage supply subject areas
• Be trained in the new requirements of QTS and career planning practices
• Contribute to raising standards in schools and be able to identify strategies to raise standards and implement them in their own classroom
• Differentiate their teaching in the classroom
• Contribute to the school as a learning community
• Become confident in delivering effective subject knowledge in the classroom
• Be fully conversant in the pedagogical side of teaching and its effective application in schools and the classroom
• Use ICT effectively in both classroom delivery and the administrative side of education

• Have experience of the distinctive provision of the links between KS3 and KS4  to Sixth Form, and have a range of strategies available to them for effective delivery in the classroom