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Welcome to to Inspiration Teacher Training Thank you for considering Inspiration Teacher Training to start your career in teaching. It’s 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 in one of the UK’s most attractive places to live. In this prospectus you will 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
Meet our team Our core team unites an impressive range of experience of teaching and leadership, curriculum research and development, and subject expertise. The team will guide and mentor you through your training with us. Sarah Buckley - Primary Phase Lead Tim Mullis - Secondary Phase Lead & Science Lead Nicola Coe - Director of Maths Matthew Carnaby - Director of English Nina Torin - MFL Lead Ben Arscott - History Lead
We also draw on classroom and subject experts from our partner schools, which includes some of the region’s top performing schools at GCSE and A-level.
Every day as a teacher is different succeed and grow into young adults, and building your own career as a classroom teacher or school leader. Being a teacher means adding real value, having a purpose world’s happiest jobs. Moreover, with salaries starting at £25,714 and rising up to £41,604 as your career progresses, teaching represents an excellent career choice. As a lead practitioner, you could earn up to £64,461 and up to £117,197 as a headteacher. There are also
Make a difference and inspire the next generation Excellent opportunities for career progression
Financial support available while training Huge job satisfaction
Funding your 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:
Tax-free bursary or scholarship Tuition fee loan and maintenance loan dependant or a disability subject specialist courses.
Why train with us? training courses, we put the subject you teach at the core of your training. We
your passion for the subject you teach. We want to help you share this with the next generation.
Our community of subject mentors also distinguishes us from other courses. Our Curriculum Centre brings together leading subject specialists, who ensure that your training year is intellectually rigorous and immediately relevant to teaching in schools.
Our courses aim to get the balance just right, covering both what you teach and how you teach it to a class of young learners. Our courses are designed to be intellectually stimulating, intense, challenging, and rewarding at every stage. At the end of the year, you will enter that you have had the best possible training available.
Studying in Norfolk the best places to live in the UK. Norwich is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city, mixing
Not only that, but housing costs and the cost of living are substantially cheaper economically savvy choice too.
Your training year Autumn term 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 you will begin teaching straight away, teaching part of a lesson (with
Spring term standard by early in your second placement. Your teaching hours may continue to have days in the Curriculum Centre, but these will drop to once a perhaps switching from secondary to primary, 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.
Summer term
Primary As a primary teacher you play a vital role in a child’s life. We believe strongly in ensuring that primary schooling tackles the effects of social disadvantage. We will train you to teach a knowledge-rich curriculum, introducing pupils to worlds they do not know and vocabulary that they may not get from home. You will build literacy rapidly through great literature, traditional tales and stories as well as fascinating knowledge about science, the natural world, the past, music and the arts. Primary school teachers usually have one class of pupils to whom they teach all subjects. national curriculum. You will have the chance to specialise in your second term, choosing mathematics, English, natural sciences, music, modern languages or humanities.
On our course you will: Learn how to manage a class and work with teaching assistants and support staff. needs in detail, and learn strategies that experienced teachers use to meet them. Your school placements will give you the opportunity to teach, to observe, to practise, to experiment, and to innovate. practice, and identify the ways in which you need to develop, building a highly personalised programme in which you develop your teaching style, practice, and ideas in a bespoke way.
Chemistry with science Bursary: £24,000 This course is for chemists with a passion for developing a new
Although we welcome candidates from a wide variety of experiences, what should unite all candidates is chemical minimum of 50% chemical science. The goal of our science curriculum is to enable pupils to become part of the international teach them the required an accurate understanding of informed decisions in life.
The course provides you with plentiful opportunities to develop your ability to lead whole-class and deliver memorable, but purposeful, demonstrations in the classroom. You will observe regional and nationally renowned with them the challenges and opportunities you will experience. The course places emphasis on your ability to use your critical your own teaching style.
English “Support from my mentor and the the rest of the English department has been incredible and I couldn't have asked for more” Neve Eyles Trainee Teacher English
This course is for people who understand that a command of language child’s education. Literature enables our students encounter the thoughts and struggles of different ages, and we as teachers are their guides into this fascinating world. primarily on literature from the
will want 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 your students, not as dry rules, but as shape meaning.
Maths
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Bursary: £24,000
"The central team at the curriculum centre are focused entirely on helping us to grow as practitioners and become better teachers." Christopher Trainee Teacher
As a mathematics teacher, you will be passionate about the value of maths for every individual, and believe in the mathematical potential of everyone. You do not necessarily need to have a maths degree for the course, but you will need a degree in a subject that includes
There is an emphasis on understanding both the nature of maths and the mathematical
Trainees explore how students learn maths most effectively and how students remember what they learn. You learn what this
challenging concepts. You will
what this means for pedagogy, enabling you to fully understand your expertise in maths and communicate it to others.
History “The taught sessions offer an overview of curriculum knowledge and an in-depth study of teaching practice. Debates are always encouraged!” Luke Hewerdine Trainee Teacher History
particularly by focusing on aspects of the subject that might not be your specialism. You will survey a range of educational research which will shape your teaching practice as you develop a better professional understanding of learning, reading and memory.
curriculum where pupils become fascinated by the stories of the past,
You will teach pupils to navigate their way around the past, construct arguments and pose their own powerful questions. You will learn about how the conceptual structure of the discipline - causation, change, continuity, similarity, and difference - can shape historical arguments. Throughout you will learn how to develop pupils’ literacy and language to ensure that they present their arguments cogently and succinctly in well-structured extended writing.
You will also learn how to assess the security of pupils’ historical gaps or problems with precision. Direct instruction is crucial in effective teaching where the teacher deliberately teaches the pupils rather than leaving it up to them to discover the answer. This is paired with diverse interpretations of the past, so that pupils learn how and why the past has been remembered differently and develop their own thoughtful conversations about how we understand it.
Modern languages Bursary: £10,000
“Teaching can be hard work but it is so enjoyable that you do not feel like you are working, just sharing passion” Anthea Mills-Vingoe Teacher Training Mentor for MFL
You should have a belief in the emancipatory power of languages. As you will be teaching language at A-level standard by the end of your training, degree level. This course will develop you as a
and sequence language learning in such a way that pupils rapidly grammatical structures, wide vocabulary, and colloquial idiom. and training in the professional practical you will learn how to
You will have the opportunity to observe pioneering professionals the challenges and opportunities you experience. You will survey educational research which will shape your teaching practice, and learn about language acquisition and common misconceptions that pupils develop, how these can be predicted, and overcome. You will also study the grammar of your language and different curriculum models in languages.
Physics with science Bursary: £24,000
people in a society increasingly driven by science. You may have just spent time in industry and want to share your experience.
interpret the world and solve problems. Above all else, physics is a subject of great beauty, of simple patterns that lead to staggering outcomes. With a clear focus on cognitive psychology and will develop a highly-effective teaching style. We want you centre stage, enthusing about assessment techniques.
We want to help you ensure that pupils not only understand physics but remember it for all time. You will learn to lead exciting class practicals and demonstrations with precision, and be trained in a purpose-built schools. You will complete the course ready to join the wider as an able practitioner,
“My mentor is extremely supportive and helpful, always around whenever I need any advice. They are happy to answer any questions and feedback is always constructive.� Grace Barnes Primary Trainee Teacher
Your training and placements Our curriculum centre is in Norwich, in the heart of beautiful East Anglia. As part of your training you will receive expert tuition in this historic cathedral city, but the majority of your time will be spent in our partner placement schools. We have more than 20 schools in our alliance, covering nursery through to sixth form, and we are continuing to grow. Full details of our partner schools are on our website. You classroom settings.
Your Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) When you train as a teacher with us Teacher Status, you can also gain a (PGCE). Our PGCE places a strong focus on subject expertise and the teaching of debates in teaching, meaning that you will be well-placed to enter into wider research-informed professional conversations as your career advances. course is delivered alongside your main teacher training, but is assessed The award is validated by our university
Entry requirements primary, science is also required. You should have a degree at 2:1 or above. For secondary courses we would normally expect that at least 50% of your degree is relevant to the National Curriculum subject you please contact us for details.
Suitability checks related to safeguarding
Satisfactory references
How to apply All applications are made online via UCAS. You can contact us for more one of our partnership schools. You will spend the day with mentors a presentation, observing and analysing a lesson, and completing an members of our team.
Inspiration Teacher Training is part of Inspiration Trust, registered in the UK: 08179349. Inspiration Trust, 28 Bethel Street, Norwich, NR2 1NR.