Although our last cohort of SCITT & School Direct students are now over half way through their Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) ‘Induction year’ and our current cohort are also over half way through and all out in their second placement training schools, we’re still looking to recruit applicants wanting to start teacher training in September 2017 (UCAS opened on 18th October 2016).

So why did our trainees chose schools-based training and why should you?

Do you want to:

• go back to university and sit in a lecture theatre for days on end?
• complete assignments to prove that you know how to teach?
• only see children when you are sent to a school miles from home?
• have no real choice about where you’ll train?
• increase your student loan debt by as much as it’s possible to borrow (£9,000)?
• have to do (and pay for) a PGCE, when you know that you don’t really need one to become a qualified teacher?

• train to teach in a school environment?
• have a choice about where you train in local schools?
• be trained by specialist teachers who really know and understand teaching?
• be supported to learn by experts with the most up to date teaching techniques?
• really feel part of a school, not just a ‘visitor’ on a placement for a few weeks?
• save £1,600 against the cost of some courses?
• have the choice about whether you want to do a PGCE or not, in addition to your teacher training?

Yes? – That’s why our trainees chose us and why you should too!

Please look through this website to find out more about why you should consider school-based training in a Doncaster ITT Partnership school and see how to apply for one of our programmes.

Good luck with your application!

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The former Secretary of State for Education, The Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, included Doncaster on a list of 12 new ‘Opportunity Areas‘ in 2017.

In a speech in January 2017 she said:

“Opportunity areas will help local children get the best start in life, no matter what their background. Ensuring all children can access high-quality education at every stage is critical. We will focus not just on what we can do to help inside schools, but also create the opportunities outside school that will raise sights and broaden horizons for young people.”

“Increased DfE opportunity area funding of £72 million will support local education providers and communities to address the biggest challenges in the 12 areas, and the opportunity areas will have priority access to other DfE support including the Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund [TLIF] worth £75 million, focused on supporting teachers and school leaders in challenging areas to develop.”

“A new £3.5 million programme, with £1.5 million coming from DfE and £2 million from the Education Endowment Foundation [EEF], will support the creation of a research school for each opportunity area. These schools will lead the development and dissemination of evidence-led practice in local schools.”

So it’s never been a better time to train to teach in Doncaster with so much additional focus and support coming into the Borough;

• now a DfE designated ‘Opportunity Area’;
• access to the DfE’s TLIF funding, and;
• the creation of a DfE – EEF ‘Research School’.

Be part of our journey and benefit from the renewed focus on improving Educational outcomes for pupils in Doncaster.

 

From September 2017, the Doncaster ITT Partnership will once again be working with the University of Hull to enable SCITT & School Direct trainee teachers to progress through a programme of part-time study to level 7 and to the award of PGCE, in addition to achieving Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

We are delighted to be able to offer this additional optional postgraduate qualification for trainees who may wish to achieve the PGCE in its own right or perhaps as the first step towards a Masters in Education.

A. Over £22,000 in their first year!

That compares favorably to almost every Graduate post in the UK and exceeds many.

But clearly it’s not all about the money.

“Although [these] incomes vary between degree disciplines, it’s important to remember that there is no point earning £40,000 a year as a barrister if you don’t enjoy doing it. Pick your job according to your passion and if you work hard enough at it, you will end up with a healthy salary!”

– Mariclaire White writing in Save the Student (2015)

So if ‘your passion’ is to teach, then train with us.

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