Teach West Midlands | Train to Teach West Midlands | School Direct | Teacher Training Course West Midlands

Address

Shires TSA Office, Studley High School, Crooks Lane, Studley, Warwickshire B80 7QX

Telephone

01527 852478

Email

hello@shirestsa.co.uk

Partner

University of Worcester

TSA vision:

Our vibrant communities will develop an outward facing alliance, which attracts the very best staff, where honesty, trust and shared moral purpose enable everyone to succeed.

By providing high quality, innovative CPD and leadership development to ensure excellent practice is shared to enable all schools to develop together.

Through robust evaluation and continual development of our practice across the Alliance, we will ensure all children secure excellent personal and educational outcomes.

Objectives:

• Recruit and train high quality entrants to the teaching profession and into the alliance
  
• Provide trainee teachers with the highest quality of teacher training
  
• Identify and deploy expertise across the alliance to facilitate and deliver training and support in various settings and contexts
  
• Develop capacity to improve teaching and learning across the alliance
  
• Engage in action research and development where appropriate and relevant to inform and improve pedagogy and professional development across all phases
  
• Promote the development of leadership skills within and beyond the alliance to secure the development and appointment of new leaders within schools

Salaried / non salaried routes:

Non-salaried

Phases

Secondary

Subjects

Biology, Chemistry, Computing, English, French, Geography, German, History, Humanities, Mathematics, Physical Education, Religious Education, Spanish

Engagement in school experience programme or similar:

Shires provides a bespoke school experience programme. Potential trainees can request two-five days across any of our alliance schools by visiting our website on this link [http://shirestsa.co.uk/teacher-training/register-your-interest/|http://shirestsa.co.uk/teacher-training/register-your-interest/]

Unique selling point of your programme:

Trainees experience a teaching training programme set in a diverse semi-rural setting. The Professional Studies element of the training takes place across all of these alliance schools so that trainees are learning very our very best staff. We offer enrichment opportunities from leadership pathways to half-day experiences in subjects beyond specialisms. The programme also includes experience of special schools, grammar schools, selective entry, single sex schools, 11-16 and 11-18.

Professional pathway beyond ITT:

If employed by alliance schools following qualification, staff are eligible for all courses and training run by the Shires Alliance such as NPQML, NPQSL, Mental Health training, 'Back to Basics', etc.