All initial teacher training programmes include time spent in schools observing experienced teachers and progressively taking on a full teaching role. Trainee teachers learn essential skills such as how to manage a whole class and how to plan and evaluate lessons.
All training routes lead to qualified teacher status, which is followed by one year as a newly qualified teacher pursuing a carefully structured induction programme.
Many people attend a university or college in order to train as teachers, but it is also possible to pursue a school-centred programme or to be employed as an unqualified teacher in a school while following an individual programme that leads to qualified teacher status.
A range of enhancement, extension and booster courses allows prospective teachers to augment their subject knowledge in order to teach.
