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

Address

Hales Valley Teaching Hub, C/O Lutley Primary School, Halesowen, West Midlands B63 1BU

Telephone

01384 818220

Email

info@hvts.org.uk

Partner

University of Birmingham, Haybridge SCITT, Black Country Teaching School Collaborative (BCTSC)

TSA vision:

We have a passion for high quality teacher training based in practice through collaboration, support and excellence. Schools in the partnership all have the same ethos and work hard to provide trainees with the very best experiences and opportunities to develop.

Catchment Area

Dudley

Qualification

PGCE

Salaried / non salaried routes:

Non-salaried

Phases

Primary

Engagement in school experience programme or similar:

We provide school experience through the School Experience Portal (SEP) and we also offer the 'Passport to Teaching' package.

Unique selling point of your programme:

• 100% employment rate over the last 5 years
  
• 2018 - 2019 2/3 of our trainees were employed in our partnership schools
  
• High level of support and communication for our trainees
  
• High quality of teaching and learning across the partnership for trainees to learn from and access
  
• We train you, we gain you, we sustain you with a robust Newly Qualified Teacher and Recently Qualified Teacher programme providing continuous professional development throughout your first few years of teaching
  
• We place you with good to outstanding teachers within our experienced partnership schools. You will be supported by a strong network of highly skills practitioners who are in regular contact with you and your school. Hales Valley Lead Mentors support you throughout all your school placements. We provide you with high quality training sessions and school placements enabling you to become a highly effective primary school teacher

Professional pathway beyond ITT:

• Newly Qualified Teacher programme (NQT)
  
• Recently Qualified Teacher programme (RQT)
  
• Improving Teacher Programme (ITP)
  
• Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP)
  
• National Professional Qualification for Middle Leaders (NPQML)
  
• Power of Coaching (POC)
  
• Appraisal Training
  
• National Professional Qualification for Senior Leaders (NPQSL)
  
• Outstanding Leadership in Education (OLE)
  
• National Professional Qualification for Headteachers (NPQH)