Straight to teaching
What do the new QTS changes mean for SEND settings?
Learn how the new QTS requirements impact special schools and what this means for you if you're teaching SEND without QTS.
Can you teach in an academy without QTS?
New legislation means teachers in academies need to have Qualified Teacher Status. Learn what the change means for academy teachers without QTS, who is exempt, and how you can gain QTS while teaching.
Straight to Teaching: a personalised preparation course for QTS
Do you have talented TAs, HTLAs, unqualified teachers or other support staff that you know could become great teachers? Our Straight to Teaching course is a unique professional development programme that supports suitable school staff to gain QTS while they continue to work at your school.
Straight to Teaching: a graduate’s story
Our QTS preparation course Straight to Teaching helps school staff to become qualified teachers while they continue to work in their current school. We caught up with Straight to Teaching graduate, Shereen Proctor of Bluebell School, to find out about her experience.
Global teacher shortage: the rise in job vacancies
The global teacher shortage is a crisis that needs addressing urgently and demonstrates the necessity for schools to support, train and retain the talented staff already in their school community. Here’s how we can help.
Straight to Teaching: from Music to HTML
Oliver Moore – Unqualified Music teacher to Computer teacher: “I hadn’t even considered becoming a fully qualified teacher until Straight to Teaching.”
Tips for developing pupil comprehension
Does the thought of becoming an early years teacher appeal to you? Our guide has everything you need to start your journey.
Ask Tes Institute: how to prepare your QTS portfolio of evidence
Meeting the Teachers’ Standards is something that every trainee teacher will have to work towards in their journey towards Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and in order to be recommended for QTS assessment these standards must be succinctly and clearly evidenced and uploaded onto Tes Institute’s online learning platform.
Which qualification do I need to teach abroad?
We regularly hear about teachers being seduced into moving abroad by the allure of an international teaching career, often enhanced by tax and salary incentives, professional development opportunities and work-life balance – and of course, the thrill and adventure. But what qualification do you need to teach abroad?
Which Tes Institute course is right for you?
So, you’ve decided to become a teacher. But what are the next steps? Find out more about our different teacher training routes in this blog.
How to become a primary school teacher
There are a few different ways of becoming a primary school teacher in the UK and it’s important to make sure you find the route into primary teaching that works best for you. Here, Tes Institute share some of the main routes open to you.
Nominate your talented TAs to become qualified teachers
Our new nomination form makes it even easier to grow your own qualified teachers. Perfect timing for 2020/21 academic year planning and beyond.
Barnton Primary School's story - Straight to Teaching programme
Barnton Community Nursery & Primary School are part of a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) based in Cheshire. Since 2016, they have been recruiting and developing talented unqualified teachers and helping them prepare for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) using Tes Institute’s Straight to Teaching programme.