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What is Teacher Training?
Improving teaching and school leadership is the best way to make sure that every child, no matter their background, gets the education they deserve.
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How the NPQs make professional development work for your school
In this article, we break down the National Professional Qualifications (NPQs), and outline five ways they will make professional development work better for your school.
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Understanding teacher training funding and salaries
In this explainer, we explore the bursaries and scholarships available when you start your training, tuition fees, and the different salaries available once you become a qualified teacher.
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Using professional development to equip special schools and support all pupils
Deputy head Phil Leaney shares how his team set up a SEND and Inclusion Hub, and used the NPQs to equip nearby special schools and support all pupils. Find out more.
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Community, culture and CPD: One school’s journey to improvement
In this article, headteacher Nigel Youngman shares how the Whitehaven Academy raised school standards with CPD.
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Training to teach with Ambition: 3 reasons why
We look at how Ambition’s Teacher Training course will provide you with on-the-job teaching work experience, allow you explore your subject, help you develop the skills needed to be a teacher. Learn more.
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Improvement through empowerment: our thoughts and reflections
Ambition comments on a new report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research, which argues that investing in teachers’ professional expertise and skills, rather than “high stakes top-down accountability”, is the key to school improvement.
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