What is the NPQLT?
What is the NPQLT?
The National Professional Qualification for Leading Teaching will equip you with the knowledge, skills, experience and network to know how to lead teaching in a subject or phase. This course builds on the knowledge you already have as an experienced teacher or middle leader, and focuses on what you need to know and be able to do to effectively lead the practice of others in a team. You will learn:
- How to contribute to creating a culture of high expectations for young people as well as a culture that is conducive to colleagues’ professional development in your setting
- How to develop colleagues’ planning and delivery of evidence-informed practice
- How to design and develop a well-sequenced, coherent curriculum
- How to help colleagues adapt their planning and teaching to meet the needs of all pupils
- How to design assessments that lead to valid and reliable data and increased pupil learning, and which do not overly burden teachers
Who should take the NPQLT?
The National Professional Qualification for Leading Teaching is aimed at experienced and effective teachers who have, or aspire to have, the responsibility for leading teaching in a subject, year group, key stage or phase. You might be a current or aspiring Phase Leader or Head of Department, or holding another teaching and learning responsibility and looking to expand your remit to lead others in curriculum and teaching. Whatever your current role or career aims, the NPQLT will develop your ability to lead others well and influence their practice in the classroom.
Why the NPQLT 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.