About Us

Introduction

The Northampton Teacher Training Partnership has an enthusiasm for the delivery of high standards of teaching and learning and a responsibility for ensuring that delivery.  The Partnership, an exciting consortium comprising of secondary schools, is committed to making a full contribution to the recruitment and training of high quality teachers to the profession to ensure effective teaching and learning in the future.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS FOR SCHOOLS, STAFF AND STUDENTS INVOLVED IN SCHOOL CENTRED INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING?

i) Schools

· Trainees can play a full and active role in the life of the schools, producing teaching materials, planning and assessing students work

· The professional development of teaching staff will enable teachers to focus more effectively on their own practice, becoming more effective within their own classroom and in supporting the trainees.

ii) Teachers

· Learning experiences will come from tutoring trainees

· Own teaching skills can improve

· Personal and professional development opportunities will be enhanced

· Will be helped to value their own expertise and to reflect on their own teaching and to improve that teaching

(iii) Students

· Subject knowledge of the trainees can bring to the school a wider range of subject        experience

· Additional extra-curricular activities

· The new improved Standard for newly qualified teachers

· New ideas and group/individual work

  To ensure rigorous assessment of trainees competence in respect of subject knowledge; lesson planning and classroom management; monitoring, assessment, recording and reporting, accountability and further professional roles.