Recruitment and Development
Routes into Teaching
There has never been so much choice in the pathways to becoming a teacher. Whether you have harboured a lifelong love and ambition to work in education, or if you have considered a career change, learning the craft of teaching is a skill which will impact generations to come.
Here are the routes into teaching and the partnership we have at The Gateway Learning Community:
Career Development and Progression
At The Gateway Learning Community, the professional and career development of our staff is a priority. Opportunities include internal and external local and national training of the highest standard and draws upon the most recent research and evidence informed approaches.
Our Universal Offer
- A comprehensive programme of professional development, including opportunities to observe best practice within your own academy and across The Trust
- Opportunities to observe best practice within your own academy and across The Trust
- A best practice directory for you to watch videos linked to specific Teaching WalkThrus
- Trust wide collaboration with year group partners
- Regular opportunities for professional reading
Stage of Career: Early Career Teacher
- A thorough induction programme delivered by leaders across The Gateway Learning Community Trust and our various partners
- Clinics and conferences led by our delivery partner: Primary Learning Network, using approved provider materials from Ambition Institute
- Clinics led by the teaching and learning team and leaders across The Gateway Learning Community
- A bespoke programme of professional development
- An allocated mentor and tutor to support your successful completion of the 2-year ECT programme
- A well-being mentor in your own academy
Stage of Career: Recently Qualified Teacher
- The development of knowledge and skills identified as targets at the end of the ECT programme
- A well-being mentor in your own academy
- Structured targeted support from phase leaders through core team meetings and planning, preparation and assessment time
- Professional conversations and support to consider future career aspirations
Stage of Career: Established teacher
- A differentiated programme of professional development, including opportunities to observe best practice within your own academy and across The Trust
- Regular opportunities for professional reading and action research to inform Trust policies and approaches
- Opportunities to become a mentor for a teacher in the early stages of their career, including initial teacher training and the early career teacher programme
- Opportunities to become a teaching and learning coach for teachers at the early stages of their career
- Opportunities to visit local and national schools with a particular focus where this has been highlighted a model of good practice
Stage of Career: Middle & Senior Leaders
- Opportunities to complete‘ National Professional Qualifications’ in a range of areas, including: teaching and learning, behaviour & culture and curriculum
- A wide range of quality leadership development opportunities within each academy, across the Trust and through our various partnerships
- Opportunities to visit local and national schools with a particular focus where this has been highlighted a model of good practice
- The opportunity to contribute to the policies and practices across The Trust through collaborative working at Trust action groups
- Opportunities to engage in peer reviews across the Trust
- Opportunities to work with the Trust’s central team to further develop knowledge and skills
- The opportunity to lead professional development for teachers within each academy and across the Trust
Our quality professional learning opportunities are provided through partnership working with the following organisations:
