Meeting the Standard for the Award of QTS
Meeting the Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status is a developmental process. Over the two-year course Trainees will be working towards meeting all of these Standards. Only if Trainees can prove that they have achieved all the Standards overr a sustained and substantial period will the University recommend them for QTS.
All of the Standards and the requirements for their achievement are covered during the taught modules and must all be achieved.
However, it is during the employed school experience element of the programme that these Standards are worked towards in practice and assessed, both formatively and summatively by the mentor and the Visiting Tutor.
This is undertaken via the employed workplace experience element of the programme. Prior experience and existing skills may mean that Trainees are already working at a level that shows they have achieved certain Standards. However, Trainees must be able to prove this. For this reason, Trainees will be completing Reflective Journals of Evidence.
The Standards are not a 'tick list'. It is not enough simply to provide one or two pieces of evidence to support each Standard. Trainees must show not only achievement of a Standard, but evidence that they are consistently able to meet it successfully.
For this reason, Standards will be assessed throughout the course to ensure a very high standard of teaching ability and an audit of Standards carried out at the end of each year.
To see how the new standards are covered, see the file below.
