This programme is designed to develop teachers who are subject leads or responsible for improving practice in a specific subject or phase.
The programme will support your understanding of the core principles behind learning and will support you to effectively sequence your curriculum. In addition, your role in implementing change within the curriculum and in supporting the professional learning of others will also be explored.
This programme is for teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading teaching in a subject, year group, key stage or phase.
All applicants must have completed 2 full years teaching following achieving QTS/QTLS/Level 5 (or equivalent) qualification.
Teachers and leaders employed in state-funded schools, as well as those employed in state-funded organisations in England that offer education to 16–19-year-olds, will be able to access DfE funded training scholarships for all NPQs. This funding will be available for the next two years, to support participants undertaking NPQs in 22/23 and 23/24.
Organisations eligible to access funded training scholarships include:
In addition, the DfE are introducing additional payments to small schools, to enable them to support their teachers and leaders to undertake NPQs. This Targeted Support Fund will give a grant payment of £200 per participant to settings with 1-600 pupils, for every teacher or leader they employ who participates in an NPQ. Organisations that are eligible for NPQ scholarships will also be eligible for targeted support funding, with the exception of non-school based early years settings (group-based providers and childminders), virtual schools, hospital schools not already included in other categories of eligible organisations, and young offender institutions.
If your school is not eligible for DfE scholarship funding, the cost for the NPQ in Leading Teaching (NPQLT) is £840.
The programme aims to help you and your school by:
This is a 15-month programme involving 12 months’ delivery through seminar workshops and self-directed on-line learning and up to three months for assessment. The programme will give participants the essential knowledge, skills and concepts underpinning the successful leadership of teaching. It will do so through exploring the following content modules based on the DfE’s NPQ frameworks: