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Our Graduate Teacher Programme
offers schools the opportunity to train new
Languages teachers who are native
speakers of French, German or Spanish.
What some of our partnership training schools said about the CILT GTP in 2007-08:
"It has constantly provided us with enthusiastic, creative GTP trainees whose input cannot be underestimated."
"It has ensured that we are aware within MFL of changing requirements, latest teaching and learning pedagogy and look at our own teaching and learning."
"I, as a mentor, really enjoy being a part of this great programme."
"Thank you. I have enjoyed working with CILT this year!"
As a partner school you:
- Receive a grant of between £14,500 and £18,200* (dependent on your location) towards your Graduate Teacher’s salary
- Interview pre-selected candidates and choose your own trainee
- Are part of an innovative programme of Initial Teacher Education specifically designed for native speakers
- Have access to professional development opportunities in mentoring and using ICT in MFL
- Work with expert MFL teacher trainers
- Have access to CILT’s wide range of resource materials
- Join an active and loyal network of partner schools
- Have privileged access to other CILT initiatives and projects
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Is your school eligible?
- The programme is open to maintained secondary schools throughout England. (Mentors and trainees must attend training sessions at one of our three training centres in central London or the Universities of Sheffield or Birmingham.)
You must:
- Be willing to employ a Graduate Teacher as a supernumerary member of staff.
- Be able to offer a good training environment for a Graduate Teacher.
- Be able to nominate an experienced Languages teacher as mentor for your Graduate Teacher.
- Be able to offer your Graduate Teacher a timetable of MFL classes in both KS3 and KS4.
- Be able to demonstrate evidence of quality in your MFL department.
- Be able to offer access to ICT for your Graduate Teacher and mentor for personal and classroom use.
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Trainees
- All trainees are graduates. Many have Masters level qualifications.
- Most trainees have experience of teaching in England, their own country or another country.
- Most trainees offer a second teaching language in addition to their mother tongue.
- All of our trainees have a high level of spoken and written English.
Schools may apply to train a particular candidate, eg their Foreign
Language Assistant, or may choose a trainee from those pre-selected by CILT. All
trainees are only accepted onto the programme following a rigorous selection
process. Further information here.
The training year
Trainees are employed by the school from September to August on a one-year,
unqualified teacher's contract.
They are employed as an additional member
of staff and are given a phased programme of teaching over the course of their
training year. By January they will normally be teaching 80% of a 4-day
timetable supported by experienced teachers. (Full guidance will be
given).
Training lasts one year and leads to Qualified
Teacher Status.
Training is co-ordinated by CILT, working closely
with a mentor in the school's Languages department and with the school's Initial
Teacher Training Coordinator ("Senior or Professional Mentor"). In addition to
their school-based training, trainees attend 15 core training sessions at one of
our three training centres at CILT in London and at the
Universities of Birmingham and Sheffield. All trainees have a personal CILT tutor.
Other professional benefits
A programme of professional development is provided for mentors at our training centres in London, Birmingham and Sheffield. Other professional development opportunities will be available to partnership schools, including free training in using ICT in the MFL classroom.
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Financial
The CILT GTP is funded by the Training and Development Agency for Schools
(TDA).
CILT pays the training school a salary grant as a contribution towards the cost of the Graduate Teacher's salary. The amount of the salary grant is set by the TDA and varies according to the location of the school.
For 2009-10 the GTP salary grant is:
£14,500 - national
£17,150 - outer London
£18,200 - inner London
The salary grant is payable in three tranches over the course of the training
year.
In addition CILT pays the mentor an allowance of £1000.
Training Partnership Agreement
A Training Partnership Agreement will be agreed by CILT, the training school and the trainee prior to the start of the training year. This sets out in detail the responsibilities of each member of the training partnership. A copy of the Training Partnership Agreement is available here.
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Key dates
27th March 2009: deadline for applications from schools
(further details and downloadable form will be available on this site shortly).
11th -14th May 2009: CILT interviews all short-listed
candidates (including those nominated by their school).
9th -
10th June 2009: Selection Week: school representatives' interviews and
selection of trainees. (Only for schools not nominating a trainee.)
10th or 11th June 2009: School visit by new trainee (only for schools selecting their trainee in Selection Week).
Date TBC: information days for schools and mentors new to the CILT GTP: London, Birmingham and Sheffield.
6th - 10th July 2009: 1-week Familiarisation Course for new trainees.
10th July 2009: Training day for mentors and new trainees:
Central London (expenses will be paid).
September 2009: Trainees take up employment in their training schools from the first day of
term.
How to apply
If your school has participated in the CILT GTP before previously and would like to reapply, please complete the application form for current/previous partner schools. If your school hasn't ever participated in the programme before, please complete the application form for new partner schools.
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Find out more
Schools wishing to find out more about the CILT Graduate Teaching Programme should contact Catherine Stead, GTP Programme Manager.
* 2009-10 figures
