Graduate Teacher Programme

WIEGraduate Teacher Programme

What do schools need to know?

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GTP trainees are employees of the school. Sometimes they enter training with basic teaching skills. At other times they are novices but we hope that, as high quality applicants for teaching who have already established a career or higher level study programme, their teaching skills and knowledge will develop at a pace which outstrips that of a PGCE trainee.

If GTP trainees have existing skill and are filling a staffing vacancy, the school/candidate can apply for assistance with the costs of training (a ‘training grant only’ application) for GTP. If the GTP trainee is a novice and will not fill a staffing vacancy, the school/candidate can apply for a salary grant (in 2011/12 this is £13,500) in addition to training funding.

GTP novice trainees will usually be paid at the bottom of unqualified teacher scale and the school will need to provide for the difference between the salary grant and the trainee’s actual salary, together with oncosts which may be in the region of £4,000. Clearly, then, the school will wish to feel that there is strong benefit in taking on a GTP trainee. Reasons for accepting a trainee vary, but include:

  • specialist schools who take a trainee in their specialist area, in order to improve their staffing situation to create possibilities for outreach, etc.;
  • departments where there is adequate staffing, but the team would benefit from release of key members of staff for departmental or school management duties as the year goes on;
  • schools seeking particular role models;
  • schools wishing to provide career progression for candidates who are already employed in school in cover assistant, teaching assistant, learning mentor and technician roles;
  • schools wishing to provide for future staffing needs in a key area – e.g.Maths, Science or MFL;
  • departments where a long term staffing absence can be predicted later in the year;
  • departments where there is a very small staffing requirement uncatered for by the main team (e.g. 3 or 4 lessons a week where no specialist teacher is available);
  • schools seeking a particular expertise, for example, GCE A Level teaching.

 
Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.

 

 

Contact us

Tel: +44(0)24 7652 2918/4238

Email: gtp@warwick.ac.uk

 
Page contact: Donna Jay Last revised: Wed 23 Nov 2011
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