This programme follows the Department of Education’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Leading Teaching Framework. If you would like to express an interest in this NPQ, please send us a message via our contact us page.

On this programme, you will learn how to:

• explain important ideas about the science of learning
• understand what good teaching practice is and how to implement it
• support colleagues to design a broad and coherent curriculum
• plan effective lessons and stimulate your pupils’ thinking
• help colleagues adapt their teaching to different needs
• contribute to the design of school assessment systems
• align your professional development with wider school improvement priorities.

The content is delivered through blended learning. This includes a mix of real-time, interactive online sessions and self-guided modules you complete in your own time. The programme includes facilitator-led sessions with your peer group that focus on decision making.

Further details about this 12 month course can be found here.