What is the NPQLTD?
What is the NPQLTD?
The National Professional Qualification for Leading Teacher Development will equip you with the knowledge, skills, experience and network to know how to effectively develop teachers in your context. This course builds on the knowledge you already have as an experienced teacher and middle or senior leader, and focuses on what you need to know and be able to do to effectively lead the development of others in your school. You will learn:
- How to design professional development that has impact on colleagues and, ultimately, pupils in classrooms
- How to deliver professional development effectively to all colleagues, considering their different experience and expertise
- How to implement and embed effective teaching practices across your school
Who should take the NPQLTD?
The National Professional Qualification for Leading Teacher Development is aimed at experienced and effective teachers who have, or aspire to have, the responsibility of leading the development of other teachers in their school. You might be a current or aspiring Assistant or Deputy Headteacher with a teaching and learning remit, or leading a department or faculty and aspiring to develop teachers more widely in your context. Whatever your current role or career aims, the NPQLTD will develop your ability to help colleagues improve what they do in the classroom.
Why the NPQLTD 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.