Lionheart Teach

Accrediting provider: Lionheart Teach

About Us

Lionheart Teach is the Leicestershire School Direct Initial Teacher Training run by the Lionheart Educational Trust. The Lionheart Educational Trust seeks to develop teachers to work within our partnership and provide our students with teaching that secures academic excellence and holistic development. The school direct partnership works alongside schools in both Leicester & Leicestershire to develop trainee teachers to teach across different settings.

About Your Training Provider

Participants who complete successfully all the requisite components of this programme will demonstrate:

– Outstanding professional attributes, knowledge and understanding and professional skills in teaching commensurate with a person who has exceeded the normative Teachers’ Standards for the award of QTS

– Secure and detailed subject knowledge of the New Curriculum, other national guidance documents and engage in critical debate about current educational issues, research and practice

– Professional reflexivity in their approach to learning

– Personal capacity to acquire, review and extend as needed, their subject knowledge and professional knowledge and skills to secure learning for all pupils

– High expectations, respect and commitment for the learners in their care working with school policy and practices providing a critical analysis of frameworks for the classroom management and justify strategies for provision in the appropriate phase of education

– Effective use of Computing as a teaching and learning tool

– Well developed ability to critically analyse, reflect and evaluate theory/policy linked to practice to implement improvements and engage effectively in professional debate and use the outcomes to develop as an autonomous professional

– Ability to motivate, inspire and challenge learners

– Evaluate critically the principles of monitoring and assessment and apply them effectively within the learning and teaching context to support individual learning

– Initiative to take personal responsibility for their own professional development by synthesising practice and theory to enhance own practice

– The course focuses, during the early stages, on the acquisition of a repertoire of basic classroom management competencies to develop the confidence of trainees to work with pupils inside and outside the classroom. There is progressive introduction both to theoretical ideas that underpin professional practice and to the various dimensions of the professional debate. Trainees receive extended and focused support and tuition in their specialised subject