The service enables employers and potential employers to view the record of any teacher
with qualified teacher status (QTS)(with the exception of teachers who have achieved QTS through holding qualified teacher learning and skills (QTLS)-RRB- or any teacher with an active restriction (including any teacher with QTLS to whom this applies).
It will also provide a two - year PGCE
with qualified teacher status for those entering the profession.
DfE figures show that the percentage of qualified teachers (
those with Qualified Teacher Status) in all state funded schools was 95.1 per cent in 2015; a decrease from 95.5 per cent in 2014 while the total number of teachers without QTS increased over the same period from 20.3 thousand full time equivalent staff (FTE) or 4.5 per cent in 2014 to 22.5 thousand FTEs or 4.9 per cent in 2015.
With the removal of the requirement of academies to only hire teachers
with Qualified Teacher Status, it is feasible that in the future these «Education Corporations» will hire graduates directly every year and train them up just like other commercial organisations on the annual «milk round.»
Instead of having to hire
those with Qualified Teacher Status, an Academy may now «employ anyone it deems is suitably qualified».
Not exact matches
The proposal to replace the
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
with what is supposed to be a «new stronger accreditation», is nothing of the sort.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said a total of 551 applications had been received for the scheme since it started in 2014,
with 41 applicants starting the programme in in its first year, of which 28 have received
qualified teacher status.
Nasen welcomes clarification on the role and responsibility of SENCOs, which are seen as far more strategic,
with the Code stating that all SENCOs must have
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and must undertake the National Award.
«Our review of initial
teacher training (ITT) will ensure that trainee
teachers can demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge across different subjects, and we have committed to go further by replacing
qualified teacher status (QTS)
with a new, stronger accreditation system to raise the bar for new
teachers.»
A higher proportion of final ‑ year trainees on school - led routes achieved
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), 93 per cent, compared
with 90 per cent on higher education - led routes.
«These
teachers make up a small proportion of the overall workforce in England
with the overwhelming majority in state - funded schools holding
qualified teacher status.»
«This provides opportunities for people
with experience in areas like business, music, the arts, and sport to complement the work of
teachers who do hold
qualified teacher status and enhance the teaching available to pupils.
Setting out the education priorities for Labour in the election campaign, he called for all
teachers to have
qualified teacher status or to be moving towards it and to allow local authorities to be able to open new schools «on an equal footing
with other providers».
Highly
qualified should be
teachers with proven success
with all students regardless of family background, socio - economic
status, race, ethnicity, or language
status.
Qualified Teacher Status,
with at least 3 years teaching experience in the Primary classroom OR Graduate in Science (any specialism) plus PGCE or Education degree
Ten apprentices have gone on to a foundation degree at Canterbury Christchurch University, aiming to achieve
qualified teacher status with a PE specialism.
The programme is designed to run over three years,
with participants achieving
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) in their first year and completing their Newly
Qualified Teacher (NQT) year in year two.
The new scheme will be the first two - year PGDE course in England, and contrasts
with other pioneering routes to
qualified teacher status.
Learndirect, the country's largest private training company, holds a # 2 million contract
with the Department for Education to administer the computerised professional skills tests which would - be
teachers must sit to achieve
qualified teacher status (QTS).
2) Require all PK classrooms to have a lead
teacher with highly
qualified early educator
status.
Ensure that secondary special education
teacher candidates graduate
with highly
qualified status in at least two subjects, and customize a HOUSSE route so that they can achieve highly
qualified status in all subjects they plan to teach.
This will lead to the existing accreditation,
Qualified Teacher Status, being scrapped and replaced
with an accreditation approved by head
teachers.
Skills and Certifications
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) Patience and good communication skills Confidence on self, motivational skills and deep passion for dance Observation skills
with an attention to detail Leadership abilities