What you can expect from Tillingbourne when joining us to complete your SCITT training:
- Support from highly experienced Mentors
- Working as part of a highly motivated team who put community and collaboration at the heart of the school
- Opportunities to observe outstanding teaching and learning and to learn from experienced subject leaders
- Opportunity to work in a school where children attain above national expectations and ‘have excellent attitudes to learning’ (Ofsted 16)
- Training within an engaging, broad and creative curriculum
- Working in a school which is committed to diversity, inclusion and success for all
What Tillingbourne expects from a trainee teacher when completing a SCITT
- Ideally trainees will have experience as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for at least one year (preferably at Tillingbourne) with a view to starting your SCITT placement September 2018
- Passion for teaching and learning and a desire to give children the best possible start in life
- Excitement about learning, innovation and creativity
- Commitment to working to enable all children to access the broad curriculum and wider opportunities at the school
- Capacity to develop strong relationships with children, staff, parents and the wider community
What would a typical week look like for trainees?
Autumn and Spring Term
- 60% of the week: The trainee would work alongside an experience teacher/mentor in class for the equivalent of 3 days a week, building up their experience of teaching and learning within a supportive and highly structured framework.
- 10% of the week: The trainee has school based training
- 10% of the week: External professional training
- A teaching block in a partner school for 6 weeks
Summer Term
- The proportion of taking a teaching lead increases to 80%