Elevate Yourself from Teaching to Leadership with NPQLT
All National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) are designed and quality-assured by UK Department of Education (DfE).
NPQLT is designed for and to make school leaders, to develop expertise for and in school leadership.
Tailored for teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading teaching in a subject, year group, key stage, or phase.
NPQLT follows the Leading Teaching Framework, and supports you to learn how to:
1. Contribute to the creation of a culture of high expectations across the school
2. Contribute to the creation of a culture of professional learning and continuous improvement for colleagues
3. Explain important ideas about how pupils learn to colleagues
4. Support colleagues to help pupils learn
5. Support colleagues to design a carefully sequenced, broad and coherent curriculum
6. Support colleagues to develop pupils’ literacy by sharing and modelling approaches literacy skills
7. Support colleagues to plan effective lessons
8. Support colleagues to explain and model effectively
9. Encourage colleagues to stimulate pupil thinking and check for understanding
10. Provide opportunities for all pupils to experience success
11. Support colleagues to adapt their teaching to different pupil needs
12. Support colleagues to meet individual needs without creating unnecessary workload
13. Ensure pupils are grouped effectively (across subjects and within individual classrooms)
14. Support colleagues to avoid common assessment pitfalls
15. Contribute to the design of school assessment systems
16. Support colleagues to provide high-quality feedback
17. Contribute to effective professional development linked to teaching, curriculum and assessment across the school
18. Plan, conduct, and support colleagues to conduct, regular, expert-led conversations (which could be referred to as mentoring or coaching) about teaching
19. Avoid common teacher assessment pitfalls by designing approaches
20. Plan and execute implementation in stages
21. Make the right choices on what to implement
22. Prepare appropriately for changes
23. Deliver changes
24. Sustain changes