Aylsham High School Training School

Continuing Professional Development


NQT what is it? What is involved?

NQT stands for Newly Qualified Teacher and it is the name given to any teacher in their first year. Within this time NQTs have to meet induction standards to be able to gain the status of teacher. This may take more than a year if the NQTs work part time and they will have up to five years to complete their NQT induction once started.

LOCAL NQT NETWORK MEETINGS
There are regular meetings for local NQTS, which offer a chance to share expertise and liase with one another whilst offering training. Dates include 9th February 2010 and 25th May 2010.

CAREER ENTRY DEVELOPMENT PROFILE - CEDP
This document holds your strengths and targets and is used three times formally in your NQT year. Your areas for further development are regularly discussed and can be the base for observations and meeting with your induction tutor. They are formally reviewed twice.

Induction Standards
NQTs have to complete six induction standards; these are an extension of the QTS standards. The three core standards are outlined below:
  • Professional Values and Practice
    • Seek and use opportunities to work collaboratively with colleagues to raise standards by sharing effective practice in the school.
    • Knowledge and Understanding
    • Identifying areas in which they need to improve their professional knowledge, understanding and practice in order to teach more effectively in their current post, and
    • With support, taking steps to address these needs.
  • Teaching
    • Plan effectively to meet the needs of pupils in their classes with special educational needs, with or without statements and in consultation with the SENCO contribute to the preparation, implementation, monitoring and review of Individual Education Plans or the equivalent.
    • Liase effectively with parents or carers on pupils' progress and achievements.
    • Work effectively as part of a team and, as appropriate to the post in which they are completing induction, liase with, deploy, and guide the work of other adults who support pupils’ learning.
    • Secure a standard of behaviour that enables pupils to learn, and act to pre empt and deal with inappropriate behaviour in the context of the behaviour policy of the school.
    Courses
    The staff at AHS runs weekly after school sessions – especially directed at trainees and NQTs.

    Advanced Skills Teachers

    What is an Advanced Skills Teacher?
    ASTs are teachers who have been recognised through external assessment as having excellent classroom practice. They are given additional payment and increased non-contact time in order to share their skills and experience with other teachers, within their own school and from other schools.

    What do ASTs do?
    During their non-contact time an AST can reasonably be expected to undertake any of the following activities:
    • Producing high quality teaching materials
    • Disseminating materials relating to best practice and educational research
    • Providing 'model' lessons to a whole class, or a target group of pupils e.g. G & T, SEN, EAL etc., with staff observing
    • Supporting a subject leader with regard to schemes of work, policies or management skills
    • Observing lessons and advising other teachers on classroom organisation, lesson planning and teaching methods
    • Helping teachers who are experiencing difficulties
    • Participating in the induction and mentoring of newly qualified teachers
    • Leading professional learning groups
    • Supporting professional development

    The Role of Excellent Teachers
    The STRB has developed the concept of an Excellent Teacher, which is primarily a resource for other teachers, requiring length, breadth and depth of experience, pedagogic excellence and coaching and mentoring skills of a high order.

    Excellent Teachers should first and foremost be excellent classroom practitioners, with an established track record of sustained high quality teaching, whose pupils show consistent improvement in relation to prior and expected attainment. Excellent Teachers are distinct from Main Pay Scale and Upper Pay Scale teachers. They have a clear role in school, but unlike ASTs, no outreach function.

    Once in post, Excellent Teachers should:
    • Continue to maintain high standards;
    • Demonstrate a commitment to develop themselves professionally;
    • Provide an exemplary role model for staff through their professional expertise; and
    • Have a distinctive role in achieving improvements in teaching across the school.
    In addition to their normal classroom duties the specific expectations of an Excellent Teacher should be:
    • Induction of newly qualified teachers;
    • Professional mentoring of other teachers;
    • Sharing good practice through demonstration lessons;
    • Helping teachers to develop their expertise in planning, preparation and assessment;
    • Helping other teachers to evaluate the impact of their teaching on pupils;
    • Undertaking classroom observations to assist and support the performance management process;
    • Helping teachers improve their teaching practice including those on capability procedures.

    Fast Track Teaching

    The Fast Track Teaching programme is an accelerated leadership development programme designed for teachers in the early years of their careers. It provides a highly personalised programme of coaching, mentoring and development activities to support teachers in developing the skills required to take on a leadership role in education.

    Fast track identifies and recruits talented and committed teachers and gives them opportunities and support to enable them to become leaders in schools and education. The main aim of fast track is to provide teachers on the programme with the essential skills and experience to be ready for leadership positions in education within five years. 


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