Tes Institute Blog

As recruitment for trainee teachers becomes increasingly challenging, it’s ever more important that – as a teacher training provider – you use every opportunity to promote yourself and your training courses.

In line with efforts to enhance training and professional development for teaching staff, the UK government have announced that the school-centred initial teacher training (ITT) route, School Direct, has been renamed and is now called Initial Teacher Training (ITT).

If you want to become a special needs teacher at a SEN or SEND school, you’re probably already aware of how rewarding an experience it can be. There are challenges, of course, but the teaching experiences can be some of the most memorable and gratifying.

Over 2,000 teaching professionals have followed our Straight to Teaching route to becoming qualified teachers.

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.

“What can I earn as a new teacher” is often a question we are asked when talking to people about our courses. The answer isn’t a straightforward one as the salary you receive may vary depending on your location and other factors, but there is a specific pay scale put in place for state-run schools that gives some indication of what you can expect as an ECT.

If you want to become a teacher, then it’s ideal to have a degree in the subject you want to teach. Tes Institute investigates what happens when this is not the case.

Oliver Moore – Unqualified Music teacher to Computer teacher: “I hadn’t even considered becoming a fully qualified teacher until Straight to Teaching.”

Does the thought of becoming an early years teacher appeal to you? Our guide has everything you need to start your journey.

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.