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Support for Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs)

Leicester Learning Services has an enviable reputation for providing excellent support for newly qualified teachers (NQTs), not only in maintained schools within the city but in both academies and independent schools across the region. LLS offers 3 support packages that are designed to complement in-school induction programmes. These are the NQT Professional Learning Programme and a combination of the two.

1. Appropriate Body

As the Appropriate Body we have overall responsibility for the quality assurance of induction arrangements for NQTs. Key strands within this role are as follows:

• NQT registration and all associated administration;
• Scrutiny of NQT assessment forms; 
• Provision of an NQT handbook; 
• Telephone support for induction tutors; 
• Telephone liaison with the school if an NQT is judged to be in danger of not meeting the Teachers Standards.

2. Professional Learning

LLS is justifiably proud of its record in helping NQTs to develop their classroom practice through our professional development programme run throughout the academic year. Key strands of this include:

• Appropriate Body Package;
• NQT Welcome Event; 
• Training for new Induction Tutors and refresher training for experienced tutors; 
• Access to all the courses on the Leicester Learning Services NQT Professional Learning Programme - including classroom persona and practice, subject specific teaching and exploration of key topics (for example, ethnic minority achievement, behaviour and attendance, special educational needs);
• Intervention Service – School Improvement Adviser support to schools to verify judgements, scrutinise evidence, and provide support for the development of an action plan and attend meetings to review progress.

 

3. The Bespoke Package

This package is designed to provide schools with an Appropriate Body Package andwith traded services chosen by schools to personalise NQT induction. Key strands of this include:

• Appropriate Body Package;
• Traded access to the NQT Welcome Event, Induction Tutor training sessions and the NQT Professional Learning Programme;
• Traded access to the Intervention Service.

 

Schools outside Leicester, both secondary and primary, are able to purchase any of the elements of our support for NQTs. In addition, as from September 2013, LLS will also offer an NQT Professional Learning Programme specifically designed for NQTs in special schools

If you would like to discuss how best LLS might support your NQT induction please contact:  mark.cordell@leicester.gov.uk (secondary) telephone 0116 454 1923.or vivien.hyde@leicester.gov.uk (primary) telephone 0116 454 1932