Structure of the Programme
School Dire
ct trainees will undertake an immersion-based training programme that will place you in a primary or secondary school from the start of the academic year. You will become a member of the teaching staff where you will start off undertaking 4 hours of directed teaching per week starting from September. As your confidence and abilities grow, your teaching hours will then increase from the autumn term.
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Each trainee will also be required to undertake a second placement, usually at a partner school within the consortium, which will last 6 weeks. The aim of the second placement is to further enhance your understanding and to develop your teaching within a different teaching environment.
Participants will be released from teaching one day per week to attend their theory/classroom-based learning at the University of Sussex campus at Falmer near Brighton.
Part-time participants will undertake the programme over a 2 year training programme with hours increasing year-on-year.