What is the NPQLL?
What is the NPQLL?
The National Professional Qualification for Leading Literacy will equip you with the knowledge, skills, experience and network to know how to lead and improve pupil literacy 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 lead colleagues to help young people develop their literacy, enabling them to access the curriculum as well as setting them up for success for the rest of their lives. You will learn:
- How to contribute to designing and delivering professional development that enables colleagues to:
- Develop pupils’ language capability and wider understanding of language
- Develop pupils’ reading and comprehension
- Improve pupils’ writing
- How to champion reading across your school
- How to assess pupils’ literacy abilities in a reliable and valid way that informs future planning
Who should take the NPQLL?
The National Professional Qualification for Leading Literacy is aimed at experienced and effective teachers who have, or aspire to have, responsibilities for leading literacy across a school, year group, key stage or phase. You might be a current or aspiring post-holder, phase leader or Head of Department, or an Assistant or Deputy Headteacher with a remit focused on improving pupil literacy. Whatever your current role or career aims, the NPQLL will develop your ability to lead others to improve pupil literacy in your context.
Why the NPQLL 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.