Suffolk and Norfolk School Centred Initial Teacher Training offer the Assessment Only programme as a route into teaching.
The programme is designed for those candidates already teaching in schools who could be eligible to gain Qualified Teacher Status without undertaking a full initial teacher training programme.
If candidates are successful through selection, they move straight into the assessment process.
The assessment period of a candidate, from starting the Assessment Only programme and being awarded QTS, must be successfully completed within three months.
Who is the Assessment Only Route designed for?
The Assessment Only Route is suitable for you if you are working as an instructor in the primary; secondary or post 16 sector and are doing the following:
What qualifications are needed at time of application?
Assessment Only candidates must also have the following at time of application:
What next?
If you think you meet the requirements for the Assessment Only Programme then please contact Gill Riley, the Assessment Only Course Leader and she will send you the documents you need to complete the recruitment process.
Please note that there is a cost to your employing school for training on the AO programme and that information will be shared with you in our Assessment Only Handbook which can be emailed to you.
Selection and assessment process
If you meet all the entry requirements and you submit an application form then the following stages will take place:
Pre-Assessment Only Programme
We are also offering a pre-Assessment Only programme for those candidates who would like to undertake the Assessment Only programme but the candidate or their employing school do not feel they are quite ready at this stage for various reasons.
It may be that the candidate has not quite completed the two year requirement or the period of time for working in a second school etc.
Therefore, we are offering the pre-AO programme to those schools and candidates who might wish for some more guidance and support to become ready for the AO programme into the future as we can offer online training and access to resources and lesson observations by our SCITT assessors as part of the pre-AO programme.
There is no time restriction between engagement with the pre-AO programme and enrolment onto the full AO programme.
If you would like more information about the pre-AO programme then please contact Gill Riley as the Assessment Only Course Leader.
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