Appendix B: ITT Criteria (Primary SDS)

All accredited ITT providers must ensure all of the following:

C2.2 That they prepare all trainee teachers to teach across two or more consecutive age ranges:

• Ages 5-7 (School years 1-2)
• Ages 7-11 (School years 3-6)

and engage them with the expectations, curricula, strategies and teaching arrangements in the age ranges immediately before and after the ones they are trained to teach.

For KS1 and KS2 providers trainees must have an assessed school experience in BOTH KS1 and KS2 .

C2.3 That training programmes are designed to provide trainee teachers with sufficient time being trained in schools to enable them to demonstrate that they have met all the Standards for the award of QTS.

• SDS trainees MUST ATTEND all planned central training sessions in the School Alliance or HEI setting and complete all the directed school-based tasks.

C2.5 Each trainee teacher must have experience of teaching in at least two schools or settings.

• SDS trainees must spend a minimum of 30 days (6 week block) in an away school. It is the responsibility of the employing school to find a suitable away school.

Away School Experience:

• must be in a school different from the employing school;
• must be in a different key stage to the host placement;
• is a minimum 6-week block period.

SDS trainees must teach in the away school.