This is an 18-month programme within which participants will develop the knowledge that underpins expert school leadership and apply it to become outstanding Headteachers.

Those doing the training will learn:

• How to combine insight and practice to drive change
• How to put what you learn into practice in your school context at a time and pace that suits their existing timetable.
• How to set clear goals and communicate shared values that improve classroom and school culture
• How to transform pupils’ knowledge, capabilities and beliefs about learning
• How to create a fair and structured approach to learning and testing
• How to Establish a safe and positive environment for pupils
• How to support colleagues to meet individual needs and make sure all pupils have access to a rich curriculum
• How to lead school-wide professional development for staff
• How to establish good financial, human and educational resource management
• How to Make and act on evidence-informed decisions
• How to work well with parents, carers, other schools and the wider community
• How to lead by example, be accountable for decisions and make sure staff know their professional responsibilities.

Ambition Institute knows that schools’ and Trusts’ needs vary. So, its programmes are designed with flexibility in mind and can be completed at a time that suits you best and fits in with your existing role. Through Steplab, the innovative personal development platform built for teachers, by teachers, you will have access to your modules and practice activities to help you get better faster.

This programme develops your knowledge and skills in the 10 areas listed in the Department for Education’s NPQ Headship Framework.

How you’ll learn: 

The content is delivered through blended learning. This includes real-time, interactive online sessions, face-to-face conferences and self-guided modules you can fit around your timetable. You will put what you learn into practice in your school and be able to track your progress and get feedback as you go. The programme also includes coaching and peer learning.

Note: programme content is subject to change.

Assessment: 

The assessment window starts at the end of the 18-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, participants will be given an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which they respond to a short case study. There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment two times, if they need to. You need to complete the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation. Ambition Institute will offer a webinar and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support participants.

Current Cohort Calendars

This is an 18-month programme which helps participants to develop their leadership knowledge and expertise to improve outcomes for teachers and pupils in their schools. 

Those doing the training will learn:

• How to enact positive change across their school
• Evidence-based knowledge taught by leadership experts
• At a time and pace that suits their existing timetable.
• How to set clear goals and communicate shared values that improve the culture in your classrooms and school 
• How to establish a safe and positive environment for pupils
• How to support colleagues to meet individual needs and make sure all pupils have access to a rich curriculum
• How to lead school-wide professional development for staff
• How to make and act on evidence-informed decisions
• How to work well with parents, carers, other schools and the wider community
• How to lead by example, be accountable for decisions and make sure colleagues know their responsibilities

Ambition Institute knows that schools’ and Trusts’ needs vary. So its programmes are designed with flexibility in mind and can be completed at a time that suits you best and fits in with your existing role. Through Steplab, the innovative personal development platform built for teachers, by teachers, you will have access to your modules and practice activities to help you get better faster.

This programme develops your leadership skills and knowledge and covers the content listed in the Department for Education’s NPQ Senior Leadership Framework.

How you’ll learn: 

The content is delivered through blended learning. This includes a mix of face-to-face conferences, real-time, interactive online sessions and self-guided modules you can complete in your own time. You will put what you learn into practice in your school and can track your progress and get feedback as you go.

Note: programme content is subject to change.

Assessment: 

The assessment window starts at the end of the 18-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, participants will be given an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which they respond to a short case study. There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment two times, if they need to. You need to complete the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation. Ambition Institute will offer a webinar and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support participants.

Current Cohort Calendars

This is an 18-month programme within which participants will develop expertise in early years leadership, helping to give all children up to the age of five the best possible start in life.

Those doing the training will learn how to:

• Set a strategic direction for your early years setting and apply ambitious standards for all children
• Champion evidence-based practice
• Plan and deliver care and a high-quality curriculum to support children’s development
• Establish communication, language and literacy approaches to support children’s learning
• Make sure all children experience success
• Identify children who need support and make appropriate referrals
• Create an environment for all children and colleagues where everyone feels welcome and safe

How you’ll learn:

The programme is delivered through blended learning. This includes a mix of real-time interactive online sessions, face-to-face training, peer-led sessions and self-guided modules which you complete in your own time

Assessment:

The assessment window starts at the end of the 18-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, participants will be given an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which they respond to a short case study. There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment two times, if they need to.  You need to complete the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation. Ambition Institute will offer a webinar and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support participants.

Current Cohort Calendars

NPQ in Leading Teacher Development

This is a 12-month programme within which participants will gain the knowledge to become teacher educators and successfully support fellow teachers to expand their skills.

Those doing the training will learn: 

• How to become expert teacher educators
• To become champions of quality teaching.
• At a time and pace that suits their needs.
• How to make sure professional development in your school is focused on a shared responsibility for improving outcomes for all pupils
• How to diagnose what teachers know and can do, starting professional development from that point and adapting the approach based on their developing expertise
• How to help teachers improve through evidence-based professional development focused on improving classroom teaching
• How to gain an understanding of what teachers have learned by reviewing patterns of performance over a number of assessments
• How to develop and lead a team of colleagues who can facilitate a range of professional development approaches
• How to contribute to a programme of professional development for mentors, trainees and early career teachers.

Ambition Institute knows that schools’ and Trusts’ needs vary. So its programmes are designed with flexibility in mind and can be completed at a time that suits you best and fits in with your existing role. Through Steplab, the innovative personal development platform built for teachers, by teachers, you will have access to your modules and practice activities to help you get better faster.

This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Leading Teacher Development Framework.

How you’ll learn:

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. You will be encouraged to put what you learn into practice and track your progress as you go. 

Note: programme content is subject to change.

Assessment: 

The assessment window starts at the end of the 12-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, participants will be given an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which they respond to a short case study. There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment two times, if they need to. You need to complete the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation. Ambition Institute will offer a webinar and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support participants.

Current Cohort Calendars

This is a 12-month programme within which participants will discover what outstanding teaching looks like and use this knowledge to become high-performing leaders of teaching.

Those doing the training will learn: 

• How to become excellent leaders of teaching
• How to unpack and apply learning in teaching, curriculum and assessment
• At a time and pace that suits their existing timetable.
• To explain important ideas about the science of learning
• To understand what good teaching practice is and how to implement it
• How to support colleagues to design a broad and coherent curriculum
• To plan effective lessons and stimulate your pupils’ thinking
• To help colleagues adapt their teaching to different needs
• How to contribute to the design of school assessment system
• To align your professional development with wider school improvement priorities.

Ambition Institute knows that schools’ and Trusts’ needs vary. So its programmes are designed with flexibility in mind and can be completed at a time that suits you best and fits in with your existing role. Through Steplab, the innovative personal development platform built for teachers, by teachers, you will have access to your modules and practice activities to help you get better faster.

This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Leading Teaching Framework. 

How you’ll learn:

The content is delivered through blended learning. This includes a mix of real-time interactive sessions, face-to-face training, peer-led sessions and self-guided modules you complete in your own time. 

Note: programme content is subject to change.

Assessment:

The assessment window starts at the end of the 12-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, participants will be given an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which they respond to a short case study. There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment two times, if they need to. You need to complete the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation. Ambition Institute will offer a webinar and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support participants.

Current Cohort Calendars

NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture

This is a 12-month programme within which participants will gain expertise in behaviour management and discover how to create a school culture where staff and pupils can thrive.

Those doing the training will learn:

• How to create a positive culture in their school
• At a time and pace that suits their existing timetable
• Specific behaviour and culture expertise with tailored feedback and support.
• How to create a culture of high expectations across your school
• How to support the development of a positive, predictable and safe environment for pupils
• How to assist pupils with complex behavioural needs
• How to nurture improvement through evidence-based professional development
• How to put new approaches to leading behaviour and culture into practice in your school setting.

Ambition Institute knows that schools’ and Trusts’ needs vary. So its programmes are designed with flexibility in mind and can be completed at a time that suits you best and fits in with your existing role. Through Steplab, the innovative personal development platform built for teachers, by teachers, you will have access to your modules and practice activities to help you get better faster.

This programme follows the Department of Education’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Leading Behaviour and Culture Framework.

How you’ll learn:

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 also includes sessions with your peer group that focus on decision making. 

Note: programme content is subject to change.

Assessment:

The assessment window starts at the end of the 12-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, participants will be given an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which they respond to a short case study. There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment two times, if they need to. You need to complete the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation. Ambition Institute will offer a webinar and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support participants.

Current Cohort Calendars

Poor literacy skills are a significant barrier for young people in progressing in all aspects of their education.
In this 12-month programme, participants will become an expert in literacy and leadership and enable young people to benefit from the curriculum to improve their chances of success.

Those doing the training will: 

• Access the latest evidence-based learning in literacy development
• Support colleagues to champion literacy
• Learn at a time and pace that suits their existing timetable
• Learn how to support staff, of all subject specialisms, to develop pupils’ language and literacy skills
• Understand how children learn to talk, and how developing effective spoken language supports literacy development at every age and stage
• Understand how children learn to become fluent readers and how teachers can help with this, from primary all the way through to secondary
• Explore the importance of subject-specific vocabulary and different strategies to teaching this
• Know how to support pupils’ writing –whether learning to write in primary school, through to writing academically at key stage five
• Learn how to lead literacy through curriculum, culture and motivation
• Understand how effective literacy education can support your school

This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification: Leading Literacy Framework.

How you’ll learn:

Each of the six courses within the programme is taught through a combination of independent self-study modules, a facilitated live clinic, and a peer-led community session. The programme starts with a one-day live conference.

Note: programme content is subject to change.

Assessment:

The assessment window starts at the end of the 12-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, participants will be given an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which they respond to a short case study. There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment two times, if they need to. You need to complete the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation. Ambition Institute will offer a webinar and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support participants.

Current Cohort Calendars

This is a 12-month programme which helps participants develop a positive culture for maths teaching and embed effective approaches to teaching maths across your primary setting.

Those doing the training will:

• Understand what good primary maths teaching practice is and how to implement it

• Embed Mastery approaches to teaching maths in your school

• Lead your school to teach maths effectively, working collaboratively with senior leaders and teachers

• Develop your ability and capacity to improve the provision of maths across your school

• Equip staff to plan effective primary maths lessons and stimulate your pupils’ thinking

• Help colleagues to adapt their maths teaching to meet different needs

• Align your professional development with wider school improvement priorities

This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Leading Primary Maths framework.

How you’ll learn:

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. Each of the six courses within the programme is taught through a combination of independent self-study modules, a facilitated live clinic, and a peer-led community session. The programme starts with a one-day live conference.

Note: programme content is subject to change.

Assessment:

The assessment window starts at the end of the 12-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, participants will be given an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which they respond to a short case study. There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment two times, if they need to. You need to complete the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation. Ambition Institute will offer a webinar and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support participants.

Current Cohort Calendars

This is an 18-month programme within which participants will learn to implement tailored SEND strategies related to your school’s context.

Those doing the training will:

• Contribute to establishing and sustaining a positive and supportive culture across the school for all pupils
• Support senior leaders to ensure staff and governors enact statutory guidance
• Support teachers and support staff to understand the importance of expert teaching for all pupils and to implement a graduated approach in the classroom, subject or domain effectively
• Support the delivery of effective provision for pupils with SEND and their families, and be able to review, monitor, evaluate and improve the impact of SEND provision
• Work with staff, specialists and other agencies to assist the school in meeting the needs of all pupils
• Implement an efficient SEND identification process across the school which ensures that barriers to learning are identified and addressed at the earliest opportunity
• Work with and equip fellow leaders with the skills to establish and sustain effective curriculum planning that enable teachers to plan, adapt and teach effectively for all pupils
• Support the development of a positive, safe and supportive environment for pupils across the whole school
• Ensure all pupils feel motivated in school with a supportive setting to enable them to reach their aspirations and potential

This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ): SENCO framework.

How you’ll learn:

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 starts with a one-day live conference with a second one-day conference roughly halfway through the 18-month duration.

Note: programme content is subject to change

Assessment:

The assessment window starts at the end of the 18-month programme and runs for three months. During this time, participants will be given an eight-day window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which they respond to a short case study. There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment two times, if they need to. You need to complete the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation. Ambition Institute will offer a webinar and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support participants.

Current Cohort Calendars

Working in partnership with Ambition Institute the Hub also offer a Early Headship Coaching Offer which provides applicants with tailored, personalised support to apply knowledge from the NPQH to their individual school context.

The programme has been designed to provide a support offer for new headteachers to accompany the NPQ in Headship, to help put the evidence and expertise from the NPQH into practice. 

Over three terms, participants will receive guidance from an experienced, serving headteacher who works in a similar setting or phase, to help them apply expertise from the NPQH, to overcome the challenges and complex problems faced in their day-to-day role.

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