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Who this course is for

This course is for teachers and middle leaders who have, or want to have responsibilities for leading literacy across a school, year group, key stage or phase.

Overview

This one-year course will help you gain confidence and develop skills in:

• running literacy improvement strategies
• supporting colleagues who want to develop their pupils reading

This course will:

• take 12 months to complete
• involve an average of 1 to 2 hours of study each week
• be a mix of self-study and group sessions
• have a written assessment
• start in autumn 2024

Funding

Funding to cover the course fees for this NPQ is available for teachers and school leaders in many state-funded settings in England.

Course content

This course covers how to support colleagues to develop all pupils:

• language capability and wider understanding of language
• word reading
• reading comprehension
• writing skills

Youll also learn how to:

• contribute to effective professional development linked to teaching, curriculum and assessment across the school
• design and implement literacy improvement strategies

Benefits for you and your school

Wider understanding of language

Youll be able to use techniques from the course to help your schools development of pupils language and vocabulary.

Practical skills to encourage reading

Youll learn how to build a school-wide culture that promotes reading for pleasure.

Making use of existing resources

The course has been designed to ensure teachers responsible for leading literacy dont need to create new resources.

Help with teaching phonics effectively

Youll be able to support colleagues to develop all pupils word reading by ensuring the school uses systematic synthetic phonics methods.

Course structure

The course covers 6 topics, outlined in thecourse framework. Providers use this framework to design their course.

The course includes:

• independent study
• group coaching
• face-to-face sessions with other participants

Youll need to spend 1 to 2 hours a week working on this NPQ.

Providers

You can train with one of the following providers:

• Ambition Institute
• National Institute of Teaching
• Teacher Development Trust
• Teach First
• University College London (UCL) Institute of Education

They work with delivery partners, such as teaching school hubs, to provide training.

Assessment

To get your NPQ accreditation, youll need to complete the course and pass a written assessment (1,500 words).

Apply

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