Straight to 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 in an SEND setting
In 2022, Tes Institute hit a major milestone in supporting over 3,000 teachers to gain qualified teacher status (QTS). We caught up with, Straight to Teaching graduate, Lauren Allcock, and her Deputy Headteacher, Jennifer Newton, to find out about their experience.
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.
Barnton Primary School's story
Barnton Community Nursery and Primary School are part of a multi-academy trust (MAT) based in Cheshire. Since 2016, they've been recruiting and developing talented unqualified teachers and helping them prepare for qualified teacher status (QTS) using our Straight to Teaching course.
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.
The new teachers you don't know you have
Find some of the best new teachers for your school… at your school!
Looking for new teachers? Make sure your school is exploring every route
How the Tes Institute and COBIS collaboration can help you keep your talented teaching staff
