Advanced Skills Teachers
Advanced Skills Teachers (ASTs) are teachers who have been recognised through external assessment as having excellent classroom practice. ASTs work 80% of their time as classroom teachers in their base school and spend 20% of their time on outreach work. This will usually takes place in schools other than the teacher’s own. Base schools are funded to enable them to meet the additional costs of employing an AST. ASTs are an important and integrated part of Hounslow’s strategy for school improvement. They have a key role in supporting and developing teaching and learning in local schools.
To find out more about becoming a Advanced Skills Teacher please contact our CPD team on 020 8583 6253.
Leading Teachers
Leading Teachers work with leadership teams to build capacity in schools, which improves teaching, learning and school organisation to raise the achievement of children. The concept of the leading teacher is an established and successful one, offering the possibility of personal, targeted support and professional development through a process of demonstration and modelling, mutual observation, joint planning and reflection. A leading teacher is an excellent teacher, with proficiency in a particular area, who is able to demonstrate specific expertise in a way that can help others to learn and use new skills. This is aimed at fellow members of staff and can take the form of lesson demonstrations or planning areas that other teachers find more challenging, through to addressing the achievement of pupils and the schools as a whole.
For more information please go to www.standards.dfes.gov.uk or contact the LA Advisers on 020 8583 2875.
NCSL Leadership Pathways
Leadership Pathways offers senior school leaders access to the latest in leadership thinking and school practice, in a very practical way, which will benefit their school as well as the individual. Nominated school-based coaches offer support and challenge to participants as they trial, refine and embed improved leadership practice across a whole school. NCSL Leadership Pathways replaces the previous Fast-Track initiative and last for 1 year. This programme is particularly useful to those aspiring to NPQH achievement and seeks to build on previous experience.
For more information please go to: www.ncsl.org.uk
Leadership Management Principles and Practice (LMPP)
Leadership and Management in Principles and Practice (LMPP) is an LA course credited to the value of one quarter of an M.A. in Education ( in partnership with Kingston University.) Successful completion of the course can be certified as Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education.
Those teaching staff who undertake this course can expect to develop a range of professional skills including understanding and developing managerial practice and developing good practice in leadership and school improvement. For those schools who support their staff in LMPP, there are also a number of additional benefits including having a teacher involved in classroom-based research, school development, furthering the skills of data collection, literature search, analysis, critical judgement and writing at an academic level.
For more information please contact the course tutor on 020 8583 4153.