Initial Teacher Training

Are you thinking about teaching as a career?

Are you looking for a new challenge?
Do you have a degree and would like to put it to good use?
IF SO…
then Beauchamps High School offers Initial Teacher Training through Essex Schools ITT – a partnership of over 25 schools in West Essex, Harlow, Chelmsford, Havering, areas of Hertfordshire and Redbridge.

Our teacher training programme offers the very best of school-based training along with online learning through our provider Tes Institute.

Essex Schools ITT are committed to attracting, training and developing graduates, career changers and those who are considering their options after a career break.

Please visit the website of Essex Schools ITT to find out more about the teacher training journey, and how you can train at our school or another one in the local area.

You can also contact them on teach@essexschoolsitt.com

Essex School ITT telephone number 0208 4986718

Why Train at Beauchamps?

 – We work closely with a variety of ITT providers to ensure you are fully supported during your placements with us

– An experienced mentor in your chosen subject area

– Timetabled mentoring sessions every week

– Supportive staff

– A tailored CPD programme with our ITT Coordinator and specialist staff to compliment your provider’s training

– Weekly meetings with our ITT Coordinator and other ITTs

– Peer support from ECTs within the school

– Clear focus on your wellbeing

– Opportunity to continue your career at Beauchamps as an ECT.

Why has Beauchamps been a good place to train?

• • “Beauchamps is an amazing school with a great ethos – it is a supportive community as everyone has been willing to help me develop my teaching practice.”
  • “As a trainee I was given a warm welcome from everyone in the school and was treated as part of the team immediately.”
  • “Beauchamps has the most supportive staff – I have received invaluable advice from colleagues throughout my placement and plenty of opportunity to talk to other ECTs in the school.”
  • “The school is well organised, well led and has given me a great insight into the life and responsibilities of a teacher.”

Mentors – what makes our mentors special?

• • “I couldn’t have done without them. The support has been awesome – they have given me confidence that I can teach.”
  • “My mentors were able to use their vast experience to help me develop behaviour management strategies and professional aspects and responsibilities of being a teacher.”
  • “My mentors provided invaluable feedback on improvements to lesson planning and delivery. They helped me develop my teaching practice and giving me confidence and resilience.”
  • “My ITT Coordinator looked after my wellbeing and helped to support me when I was struggling with work/life balance.”

CPD Programme for ITTs

• • “Unlike my other placement, the ITT Coordinator ran a weekly ITT session at the same time every week. It gave me a consistent safe and supportive space during my training to discuss problems and issues and try and find solutions.”
  • “These weekly sessions helped me build relationships with the other ITTs and gave me that support network.”
  • “The sessions were very helpful for familiarising myself with school and staff. It introduced me to the relevant staff member, so I knew who to go to if I had a specific question – helped me feel part of the school community.”
  • “I found the CPD sessions very helpful as it helped me put theory into practice. Often sessions would link directly with what I had learnt with my provider that week or link to a specific assignment we had been set. It was also very helpful to understand school policies and standards of work expected.”