About the GTP scheme
This scheme is available for primary and secondary based training.
The GTP Accredited Provider takes pride in being a supportive and forward-looking ITT provider that values trainees, schools and mentors alike, training teachers of the highest calibre for schools of the future.
The Graduate Teacher Programme (GT Programme) is an exciting and challenging initial teacher training programme that operates within the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk. Excellent, reflective practitioners emerge from the training to provide schools with high calibre professionals who will help shape the future of education.
The GT Programme is run by the Suffolk and Norfolk Accredited Provider, which has been accredited by the Training and Development Agency to train and assess trainees leading to the award of Qualified Teacher Status. This is a recognised qualification which all new teachers have to gain to be employed as a qualified teacher. Although this course is rigorous and has academic elements, it does not lead to a PGCE. However, the TDA advise that teachers who wish to teach in countries other than England and Wales can normally apply for QTS elsewhere with relative ease.
For candidates wishing to train in primary or secondary, the GT Programme is an employment based-route into teaching, where the trainee undergoes their training towards Qualified Teacher Status whilst working in a school and receiving a salary. The programme attracts a wide variety of graduates into the teaching profession, including those seeking a career change. It particularly suits mature, well qualified people who can quickly take on teaching responsibilities. Many who train via this route already have some relevant school experience.
The Programme is characterised by extensive classroom and school-based experience supported by a core training programme provided off-site. The trainee becomes part of a team of experienced professionals in a school from the start of the school year and is therefore able to benefit from opportunities to work and learn alongside experienced and expert teachers. Being immersed in the life of a school from the start of the training period means that the trainee is able to make fast progress and utilise skills gained in prior employment where relevant. Trainees are in a position to learn from the experts and link educational ideas and research to current practice.
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