What is Teach East?

Teach East is a School-Centred Initial Teacher Training provider (SCITT); we offer a route into teaching that prepares you for a career in education. Most of your time will be spent in schools in Peterborough learning from experienced teachers. One day each week you will attend taught sessions in our dedicated training classrooms at Manor Drive Secondary Academy. Our training facilitators represent the very best in expertise from schools across Peterborough - the best local teachers will share their expertise and knowledge with you. They will provide you with the theory and pedagogy you need to be a confident, accomplished teacher.

Why choose a SCITT provider for Teacher Training?

School-Centred Initial Teacher Training allows you to spend more time in school than other training routes. We will provide you with a school-based mentor in your placement settings, who will support and guide you through your placements. To get you ready they will show you what effective practice looks like and teach alongside you to develop your skills and confidence in front of a class. Once you feel ready to teach on your own, they will support you to review and improve your practice, until you are the very best teacher you can be. 

Once a week you will go to our dedicated training facilities. Here you will study the theory and pedagogy of the teaching you have observed, and receive a curriculum built around the most effective principles and mechanisms of teacher development, and with full coverage of the Initial Teacher Training Core Content Framework (CCF - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/974307/ITT_core_content_framework_.pdf)

Some of the best teachers in Peterborough will provide as much advice and insight as they can around proven teaching methods and current research-based practices. You can then put these into your teaching the very next week.

How is a SCITT different from a PGCE? 

Both courses provide you with QTS (Qualified Teacher Status). QTS means that you have met the statutory requirements (The Teachers’ Standards 2012) for teaching in the UK. You need QTS to be able to teach in maintained schools in the UK.

A PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate of Education) is an extra academic qualification which includes QTS. Some PGCE courses count as part of a Masters in Education course.

If you want to achieve academic qualifications whilst you complete your training year Teach East offers an optional PGCERT module; completing the PGCERT earns you 60 masters credits. This is completed alongside your QTS.