Help us improve the lives of local children
Thank you for considering Inspiration Teacher Training to start your career in teaching. Teaching is a wonderful profession and one that is uniquely rewarding. We take an innovative and dynamic approach to becoming a teacher, matching real school experience at our placement schools with in depth subject knowledge training from our team of renowned subject and curriculum experts. As part of the Inspiration Trust one of the country's top performing academy groups - we offer a unique chance to develop in a diverse range of schools' across Norfolk and north Suffolk. In this prospectus you will get a flavour of our approach and the courses we offer. We look forward to helping you get started in the classroom and making a difference to our young people.
Carmel Greene Director of Inspiration Teacher Training
We offer fee-paying courses where you pay for the year at the same level as university tuition fees. There are three types of funding available for teacher training. Depending on your circumstances, you could receive all three:
Find out more about which bursaries and scholarships you could receive by visiting https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/funding-your-training
your passion for your subject, and we want to help you share it with the next generation.
Make a real difference to the lives of local children Inspiration Teacher Training has been born out of the Inspiration Trust, a multi-academy trust that transforms schools in Norfolk. Our mission is to make a real difference to the lives of local children and we are proudly committed to improving the standards of education in the East of England. As a trainee teacher you will be changing lives by sharing your knowledge and passion with the next generation.
You'll spend on average one day a week in the Teaching School Hub in Norwich and four in your first placement school. You will be learning about your subject, how it is taught, how pupils learn your subject, how it is assessed and much more. You will also have training on behaviour management and teaching children with special educational needs and disabilities. In school, you will begin teaching straight away, teaching part of a lesson (with support) in your first week. Every week you will meet your mentor for one-to-one support. In the second half of term your teaching will increase, reaching around 8-10 hours per week by the end of term.
By the time you start your second placement, your teaching practice will have developed significantly. Although your teaching hours might ease at first to help you find your feet in your new school, you will quickly build these back up and take on more. You will continue to have days in the Teaching School Hub, but these will drop to once a fortnight, reflecting your increasing teaching load. Towards the end of term you'll spend a week in a different school, perhaps switching from secondary to primary (or vice versa), or visiting a special school or sixth form college. We’ll help you begin applying for jobs, with tips on applications, interview days, and observed lessons.
You will be in school full-time, teaching around 15-20 hours a week. Your mentor will tailor training targets to ensure that you are on track to qualify, and prepare you for working as an early career teacher. At the end of term you will submit your teaching file and your mentor and course lead will recommend you for the award of Qualified Teacher Status.
Learn how to manage a class and work with teaching assistants and support staff. Understand that some children face specific challenges: you will study these special educational needs in detail, and learn strategies that experienced teachers use to meet them. Experience school placements which will give you the opportunity to teach, to observe, to practise, to experiment, and to innovate. Reflect on your practice and, through ongoing discussions with your mentor, identify the ways you need to develop, building a highly personalised programme in which you develop your teaching style, practice, and ideas in a bespoke way.
We welcome candidates who have a degree with substantial science content. This degree should either have some chemistry content or candidates should possess a chemistry A-level. We welcome candidates at all stages of their working life. The goal of our science curriculum is to enable pupils to become part of the international scientific community, and to teach them the required knowledge to leave school with an accurate understanding of science, helping them to make informed decisions in life.
This course is for people who love literature and know that the study of literature can be transformative. Candidates come from a wide variety of backgrounds, but what unites them is a shared understanding that the teaching of English is utterly essential, exciting, and valuable to secondary students. Literature enables our students to break out of the present and encounter the thoughts and struggles of different ages, and we as teachers are their guides into this fascinating work. Reflecting this, you will focus primarily on literature from the past which has had a significant ongoing influence. The course will aim to build your own areas of particular expertise.
Our vision for English departments is that they should be composed of teachers with a strong overall grasp of both the literary and the linguistic elements of the subject, alongside a deep understanding of particular topics. You will cover a thorough foundation in grammatical concepts, enabling you to bring them to life for you students as a rich framework of ideas that shape meaning.
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This course is for physicists who are keen to empower young people in a society increasingly driven by science. We welcome candidates who have a degree with substantial science content. This degree should either have some physics content, or candidates should possess a physics A-level.
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The way to apply for postgraduate teacher training in England has changed. You can now use Apply for teacher training, a new service from GOV.UK. Apply for teacher training is easy to use and gives clear guidance to help potential teachers make strong applications. If your application is shortlisted you will be invited to a selection day in one of our partnership schools. You will spend the day with mentors and with students, taking part in numerous tasks including delivering a presentation, observing and analysing a lesson, and completing an interview. The day will give you an insight into what it will be like to work in schools, along with the opportunity to ask questions and meet members of our team. * We consider degree criteria on an individual basis.
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