National Professional Qualification in Leading Teaching (NPQLT)

Learn what outstanding teaching looks like and use this knowledge to become a high performing leader of teaching.

Eligibility: Designed for teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading teaching in a subject, year group, key stage or phase.

Duration: 12 months

Curriculum:

This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification for Leading Teaching Framework. On this programme, you will learn how to:

• Explain important ideas about the science of learning
• Understand what good teaching practice is and how to implement it
•  Support colleagues to design a broad and coherent curriculum
•  Plan effective lessons and stimulate your pupils’ thinking
• Help colleagues adapt their teaching to different needs
• Contribute to the design of school assessment systems
•  Align your professional development with wider school improvement priorities.

How you will learn:

The programme is delivered with a mixture of face-to-face and virtual sessions. The programme starts with a full-day Conference to introduce you to the structure and content of the course, allowing you to meet your Visiting Fellow and the wider NPQ cohort.  

Each of the six courses within the programme is taught through a combination of self-study modules, a mixture of virtual and in-person Clinics, and peer-led Community sessions. You will also be allocated a study partner to complete online learning with and discuss reflections. 

The North-West London Teaching School Hub team will be supporting you throughout your learning journey on the programme, tracking your progress and acting as your point of contact. 

Assessment:

There is no project work required for this NPQ. At the end of the 12 month course, you will be given an eight-day assessment window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which you respond to a short case study. We will offer a webinar and live clinic before the assessment window to support you in preparing for your assessment.

Cost:

From September 2024, a limited number of fully-funded NPQLT spaces will be available for participants working in schools with the highest 50% of pupil premium pupils.

Fully-funded spaces are filled up quickly, therefore we always advice early applications.

If you do not work in an eligible school, or all fully-funded spaces have been filled, the cost of the NPQLTD is £899 + VAT.

If you’re unsure whether you will qualify for this ‘pupil premium’ based on funding, please use the Ambition Institute online eligibility check tool, and/or contact us at npq@northwestlondontsh.org.uk and we will advice.

Facilitators:

Sophie Walsh

North-West London Teaching School Hub

Richard Strickland

Middlesex Learning Trust

David Nash

Wren Academy

Further Info:

Only in exceptional circumstances may a participant request either a deferral or withdrawal from their programme. Participants should be aware that there is a process to follow which is outlined in Ambition’s Institute’s Deferral and Withdrawal Policy

A participant considering withdrawal from an NPQ Programme should be aware that it is Department for Education Policy to only fund an NPQ course for a participant once. This means that a participant who starts a Department for Education funded NPQ course, and then withdraws from that course, will not be funded again for the same programme.