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Standards for the award of Qualified Teacher Status

The Standards for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) are outcome statements that set out what a trainee teacher must know, understand and be able to do to be awarded QTS.

A detailed description of all the standards is available: TDA - Handbook of Guidance

Providers' Teaching Standards Profiles

Each organisation that trains teachers is required to meet particular standards by the TTA. We have particularly focussed on 'settings other than schools' but it is worth noting the others too. The TTA say all providers must:

  • R2.1 design the content, structure and delivery of training to enable trainee teachers to demonstrate that they have met the Standards for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS);
  • R2.2 ensure that trainee teachers' achievement against the QTS Standards is regularly and accurately assessed, and confirm that all trainee teachers have been assessed against and have met all the Standards before being recommended for the award of Qualified Teacher Status;
  • R2.3 ensure that training takes account of individual training needs;
  • R2.4 prepare all trainee teachers to teach across at least two consecutive Key Stages which, for the purpose of this Requirement, include the Foundation Stage and the 16-19 age range;
  • R2.5 ensure that trainee teachers spend at least the following amounts of time being trained in schools, recognising that a trainee's former experience of working with pupils may count towards these totals:
    • 32 weeks for all four year undergraduate programmes.
    • 24 weeks for all two and three year undergraduate programmes.
    • 24 weeks for all secondary and Key Stage 2/3 postgraduate programmes.
    • 18 weeks for all primary postgraduate programmes.
    Each trainee teacher must have experience in at least two schools. Time in schools may be completed on a part-time basis to make up the full-time equivalent amounts above. Teaching in settings other than schools may also count towards these totals provided they enable trainee teachers to work towards the achievement of the Standards;

You can download the full TDA - Qualifying to Teach document from the Training and Development Agency (TDA) website.