Initial Teacher Training
Course Content

To provide Trainees with the ability to:

• Become committed, confident, autonomous, creative and reflective early years and primary teachers
  
  

• Develop a deep understanding of the role of a professional teacher, in particular, preparing Trainees for a career in the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 (2/3-7 years)
  
  

• Value and understand the needs of every child and how to personalise learning for individuals, with a clear capacity to support children with SEN/D; identify and respond appropriately and early to issues of child safety and protection
  
  

• Teach in culturally diverse and varied environments
  
  

• Respond flexibly to changing circumstances and develop knowledge, understanding and skills throughout their professional lives
  
  

• Work with originality and, where appropriate, propose new hypotheses in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in education
  
  

• Lead and support colleagues in Early Years Foundation Stage Education and across a multi-professional partnership of child and family support services
  
  

• Understand the protocols, policy, and practice to support children and families living in challenging circumstances