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Attention All Post-16 Teachers

QTLS: Are you ready?

'Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills’ (QTLS) status was launched for the post-compulsory education and training sector in September 2007. From that date new and unqualified teachers, trainers and tutors within the sector are required to achieve QTLS status within 5 years. Existing teachers have the opportunity to gain QTLS status through professional recognition of their qualifications and experience.

QTLS status was introduced in ‘Equipping our Teachers for the Future’, the reform agenda for Initial Teacher Training within the  ‘Success for All’ change programme. The introduction of QTLS status has significant implications for:
• Teachers
• Trainee Teachers
• Teacher Trainers
• Principals, Chief Executives and Senior Managers
• Human Resource Managers

Under the new reforms, all new teachers are required to register with the Institute for Learning and achieve a recognised level 5 teaching qualification within five years. Those awarded QTLS status will continue to demonstrate their good standing through a career-long commitment to professional development by completing 30 hrs CPD a year to renew their licence with the Institute for Learning.

Documents

Evidence of Teachers' Skills in Literacy, Numeracy and ICT
This document outlines the intended process for evidencing teachers' personal skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT and is of essential interest to those seeking QTLS. Click here for more information.

ACETT position on Student Support Arrangements for students starting courses of Initial Teacher Training 2010/11

Resources

Positive Approaches to Behaviour Management

Training

2009 Postgraduate Update from Bradford College University Centre
Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and Masters Degrees designed to give critical understanding of educaitonal issues, informed by a critical awareness of contemporaty issues at the forefront of professional practice. Entrants to the programme need to have a first degree or equivalent vocational qualification and be working in an educational or education-related setting. Click here for further details.

Professional Formation Workshops
The IfL Regional Adviser, Ros Foggin, is running the second of a series of three workshops on Professional Formation on 19th November at the University of Huddersfield. This hands on workshop aims to give participants an overview of the Reflect facility and Professional Formation and advice on assembling a portfolio. Click here for a programme overview and here to download a booking form. Completed forms should be returned to hudcett@hud.ac.uk. Please note there is a charge for this workshop.

Websites of Interest

The Institute for Learning is the professional body for teachers, trainers, tutors and student teachers in the learning and skills sector; for further information click on the IFL logo:

The General Teaching Council for England is the professional body tor teachers in schools; to find out more, click on the GTCE logo:

Lifelong Learning UK is the independent employer-led sector skills council responsible for the professional development of staff working in the UK lifelong learning sector; click on the LLUK logo for further details:

The Standards Verification Unit UK are the subsidiary of Lifelong Learning UK responsible for the verfication of initial teacher training plus other forms of workforce training and development; for details click on the SVUK logo:

The Learning and Skills Network is an independent not-for-profit organisation committed to making a diffence to education and training; for further information about the LSN, click on their logo:

The Quality Improvement Agency challenges those involved in teaching, learning and training to lift their performance and implement the government's reforms for learning and skills; click on the QIA logo for more information:

The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust seeks to give more young people access to a good secondary education by building networks, sharing good practice and supporting schools; for more details click on the SSAT logo:

The Centre for Excellence in Leadership fosters and supports leadership improvment, reform and transformation throughout the sector; click on the CEL logo for further details:

The Subject Learning Coach website is a portal for managers, teachers and trainers throughout the learning and skills sector to access National Teaching and Learning Change Programme information; click on the QIA logo to access more information:

Teachernet is a site developed by the DCSF as a resource for people who work in schools; click on the teachernet logo to access information and resources:

The West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network (WYLLN) "...is a partnership of higher education institutions, further education colleges and other organisations within West Yorkshire committed to providing vocational progression for learners to progress into higher education". For further details click on the WYLLN logo:

The new Education and Employers Taskforce " is an independent chartity which aims to ensure that all young people can benefit from effective partnerships between education and employers". The initiative is supported by A0C and ASCL. Click on the logo for futher information: