Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP) Schools

We are inviting schools to join our Graduate Teacher Programme

There are many benefits to participating in our Graduate Teacher Programme as a partnership school: for your Modern Languages department, and for the whole school.

As a partner school you:

Receive a grant of btween £14,200 and £17,800 (dependent on your location) towards your Graduate Teacher’s salary
Interview 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. (Note that mentors and trainees must be able to attend training sessions at one of our three training centres, which are in central London, and the Universities of Sheffield and 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, either in your school or in partnership with a neighbouring school.
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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Our Graduate Teacher Programme offers schools the opportunity to train new
Languages teachers who are native speakers of French, German or Spanish, in
partnership with CILT, the National Centre for Languages.

Trainees

All trainees are graduates. Most have some experience of teaching in this country, often as a Foreign Language Assistant. Others bring experience of teaching in their own or another country. Many have MA equivalent qualifications. Most trainees are able to offer a second teaching language in addition to their mother tongue. All of our trainees have a high level of competence in spoken and written English.

Schools may apply to train their own Foreign Language Assistant, or may choose a trainee from among those pre-selected by CILT.

The training year

Trainees are employed by their school on a one-year, unqualified teacher's contract, from September to August.

They are employed as an additional member of staff, and will be given a phased programme of teaching over the course of their training year. By January, they will normally be teaching in the region of 80% of a 4-day teaching 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, the National Centre for Languages, working closely with a named mentor in the school's Languages department, and with the school's Initial Teacher Training Coordinator (Senior Mentor). In addition to their school-based training, trainees attend 15 core training sessions at one of our three training centres in CILT London and 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 three training centres in London, Birmingham and Sheffield. Other professional development opportunities will be made available to partnership schools, including freee training in using ICT in the MFL classroom.

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Financial

From September 2008 the GTP salary grant will be:

£14,200 - national
£16,800 - outer London
£17,800 - inner London

In addition, CILT pays the named mentor an allowance of £1,000. The training is funded by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA).

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Key dates

Autumn and spring terms: send your application form to CILT.

28 March 2008: deadline for applications.

12-15 May 2008: first interviews for all candidates (including those FLAs nominated by their school).

June 2008: 10-11 June Interview with school panels (only for candidates not nominated by schools). 12 June : Trainee visit to school.

July 2008: 7-11 July 1-week Familiarisation Course for new trainees, including one joint training day (mentors and trainees) on 11 July in central London. (Expenses will be paid.)

September 2008: Trainees take up employment in their training schools from the first day of term.

How to apply

Please select one:

We would like to apply to be a new partnership school in 2008/09. Please download an application form and return a signed copy to CILT by the deadline of 28 March 2008.
We are a current partnership school and would like to train a GTP trainee in 2008/09. Please download an application form and return a signed copy to CILT by the deadline of 28 March 2008.
We do not want to participate in 2008/09 as a training school, but may wish to in a future year. Please email us to express your interest.

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Find out more

Email us or ring Catherine Stead on 020 7379 5101 ext 230.