What is the NPQLBC?
What is the NPQLBC?
The National Professional Qualification for Leading Behaviour and Culture will equip you with the knowledge, skills, experience and network to know how to lead and improve pupil behaviour in your context. This course builds on the knowledge you already have as an experienced teacher, middle or senior leader, and focuses on what you need to know and be able to do to secure and sustain excellent pupil behaviour in your context. You will learn:
- How to contribute to creating an excellent school culture – both for pupils and colleagues
- How to create the conditions which enable great pupil behaviour, including creating a positive, predictable and safe environment for pupils to thrive
- How to work with and support pupils with more complex behavioural needs
- How to contribute to professional development which aims to improve behaviour and culture across the school
- How to implement, embed and sustain practices related to securing excellent school culture and pupil behaviour
Who should take the NPQLBC?
The National Professional Qualification for Leading Behaviour and Culture is aimed at experienced and effective teachers who have, or aspire to have, the responsibility of leading pupil behaviour and supporting pupil wellbeing in your school. You might be a current or aspiring Head of Year, or an Assistant or Deputy Headteacher with a remit focused on pupil behaviour, pupil wellbeing or school culture. Whatever your current role or career aims, the NPQLBC will develop your ability to improve pupil behaviour and school culture in your context.
Why the NPQLBC with the NIoT?
Our programmes are school-led: they are delivered by individuals who work in schools, right now. That means they have the in-depth, domain-specific knowledge to help you grapple with content at the right level, and to support you to problem-solve and apply learning to your own context.
Our programmes are centred on impact: our aim is for your practice to improve and develop in your current context, and for you to be ready and to take the next step in your career as a result of learning with us. We have designed our programmes carefully, and work closely with school leaders through our regional structures, as well as working with participants, to ensure our programmes are impactful in your context.
Our programmes are respectful of your time: we know you spend most of your time doing the most important job there is – serving the children in your community. That’s why our programmes are designed to be flexible, to deliver exactly what you need in the most time-efficient manner possible, and to have impact.
Our programmes are rooted in research: every aspect of what you learn is based on the best available research as well as what we have seen and experienced to work best in our founding multi-academy trusts and associate colleges.
Our programmes allow you to build a community: our in-person local seminars are focused on peer learning and problem solving together. As well as applying your learning to your own context, you will have the opportunity to build your network and support one another’s development beyond your time learning with the NIoT.
Find out more about our NPQs here.