NPQ Programmes
National Qualification for Leading Literacy
Leading Literacy (NPQLL) is for teachers who have or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading literacy across a school, year group, key stage or phase. Participants will be effective teachers who apply a range of knowledge and skills to teaching, including those set out in the Early Career Framework (ECF). This is for both primary and secondary teachers.
What will I learn?
- Supporting effective teaching of literacy across the school
- Understanding the fundamental importance of literacy and its influence on pupils’ future academic achievement, wellbeing and success
- Developing expertise across specialist literacy/leadership areas
- Having a deep understanding of the school and wider community
- Knowing how to prioritise professional development and work with colleagues, collectively enabling their school to keep improving
The NPQLL has been designed around how to support all pupils to succeed. Those currently leading literacy or aspiring to lead literacy in their contexts will develop essential knowledge of three key areas of literacy – language, reading and writing along with understanding of effective teaching, implementation and professional development to positively impact provision in their contexts. In addition to our university partners the course has been developed alongside the Chartered College of Teaching, CLPE, National Literacy Trust, Voice 21, ICan Foundation and SAPERE.
Summary of the Programme/NPQ Learning Hours
| Session Type NPQ training (55 hours): | Every Term (3 Terms) | Total Hours (3 Terms) |
|---|---|---|
| Audit before start of programme | 1 | |
| One day induction conference at the beginning of year 1 | 5 | |
| One day consolidation conference at the end of year 1 | 5 | |
| Online self-directed learning / Learning journal | 29 | |
| Peer learning group and live sessions | 3 hours term 1 & 3 / 6 hours term 2 | 12 |
| Mentoring check in sessions | Termly one-hour meeting | 3 |
| Total hours: | 55 |
Assessment
A unique part of the UCL offer is the implementation project. Each participant will demonstrate how their learning is being implemented in practice through action research or a project that is supported by a facilitated peer learning group to ensure the programme has an impact on an individual’s leadership and the pupils in the school. Once completed, the programme will be assessed through a case study based approach to be completed in an eight day window.
National Qualification for Leading Teacher Development Leading
Teacher Development (NPQLTD) is for teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading the development of other teachers in their school. This may be responsibility for the development of all teachers across a school or college, or specifically for the development of trainees or teachers who are in their early career.
What will I learn?
- The knowledge, skills and expertise to lead the development of teachers including how to sequence and structure professional development.
- The principles and practice of effective coaching and mentoring.
- How to design and deliver effective professional development.
- How to review and evaluate professional development to secure the best possible outcomes for staff, children and young people.
Summary of the Programme/NPQ Learning Hours
| Session Type NPQ training (55 hours): | Every Term (3 Terms) | Total Hours (3 Terms) |
|---|---|---|
| Audit before start of programme | 1 | |
| One day induction conference at the beginning of year 1 | 5 | |
| One day consolidation conference at the end of year 1 | 4 | |
| Self-directed learning / Learning journal / Implementation project | 9 hours per term (minimum) | 27 |
| Online learning community: Discussion session | 1 hour each term (minimum) | 3 |
| Peer learning group and live sessions | 3 hours term 1 & 3 / 6 hours term 2 | 12 |
| Line manager sessions | Termly one-hour meeting | 3 |
| Total hours: | 55 |
National Qualification for Leading Teaching
Leading Teaching (NPQLT) is for teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading teaching in a subject, year group, key stage or phase.
What will I learn?
- The knowledge, skills and expertise to lead high-quality teaching and curriculum development in your school or college.
- How to contribute to a culture of high expectations for teaching and learning across a school.
- How pupils learn.
- How to support colleagues to design a carefully sequenced, broad and coherent curriculum.
- How to support colleagues to plan effective lessons.
- How to support colleagues to adapt their teaching to different pupil needs (Adaptive teaching).
- How to support colleagues to use effective assessment.
- How to contribute to effective professional development for teaching, curriculum and assessment across a school.
Summary of the Programme/NPQ Learning Hours
| Session Type NPQ training (55 hours): | Every Term (3 Terms) | Total Hours (3 Terms) |
|---|---|---|
| Audit before start of programme | 1 | |
| One day induction conference at the beginning of year 1 | 5 | |
| One day consolidation conference at the end of year 1 | 4 | |
| Self-directed learning / Learning journal / Implementation project | 9 hours per term (minimum) | 27 |
| Online learning community: Discussion session | 1 hour each term (minimum) | 3 |
| Peer learning group and live sessions | 3 hours term 1 & 3 / 6 hours term 2 | 12 |
| Line manager sessions | Termly one-hour meeting | 3 |
| Total hours: | 55 |
National Qualification for Leading Teaching
Leading Behaviour and Culture (NPQLBC) is for teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading behaviour and/or supporting pupil wellbeing in their school.
What will I learn?
- The knowledge, skills and expertise to lead effective approaches to behaviour, pupil wellbeing and developing a whole school culture.
- How to contribute to a culture of high expectations across a school.
- How to develop the enabling conditions for good behaviour.
- How to support pupils with complex behavioural needs.
- How to contribute to effective professional development for behaviour and culture.
- How to implement effective approaches to behaviour, pupil wellbeing and for developing a whole school culture.
Summary of the Programme/NPQ Learning Hours
| Session Type NPQ training (55 hours): | Every Term (3 Terms) | Total Hours (3 Terms) |
|---|---|---|
| Audit before start of programme | 1 | |
| One day induction conference at the beginning of year 1 | 5 | |
| One day consolidation conference at the end of year 1 | 4 | |
| Self-directed learning / Learning journal / Implementation project | 9 hours per term (minimum) | 27 |
| Online learning community: Discussion session | 1 hour each term (minimum) | 3 |
| Peer learning group and live sessions | 3 hours term 1 & 3 / 6 hours term 2 | 12 |
| Line manager sessions | Termly one-hour meeting | 3 |
| Total hours: | 55 |
National Qualification for Special Educational Need Coordinators
This programme is for SENCOs, school leaders, other teachers interested in developing expertise in SEND or aspiring SENCOs.
What will I learn?
- School Culture: You will develop and sustain an inclusive, strengths-based, school culture through contributing to its strategic direction, managing resources and fulfilling the statutory duties to enable all pupils and teachers to thrive and succeed.
- Behaviour: You will be able to contribute and implement the development of good models of behaviour and learning across the whole school community including adapting behaviour approaches to meet the needs of individual pupils and liaising with and training key stakeholders to ensure a safe learning environment for all.
- Implementation: How to implement change successfully within your context by understanding the stages of implementation and applying them with the support of your facilitators and colleagues.
- Statutory framework: You will strengthen your knowledge of the legal basis for the SEND Code of Practice and how to work with key stakeholders and leaders to assist your school in meeting its statutory duties and support effective provision to pupils with SEN.
- Identification of need: How to work with teachers and leaders to identify the needs of pupils and develop policies and processes to address them including how to monitor and evaluate the impact of support and targeted intervention.
- Leading and managing provision: How to work with other leaders to implement, monitor and evaluate SEN provision effectively.
Summary of programme/NPQ Learning Hours
| Session Type | Total Hours |
|---|---|
| Online induction module at the beginning of programme | 2 |
| Face to face events x 5 | 25 |
| Peer learning groups x 4 | 8 |
| Self-directed learning | 44 |
| Mentoring / coaching | 12 |
| Total hours: | 91 |
National Professional Qualification for Early Years Leadership
The National Professional Qualification for Early Years Leadership is for Early Years practitioners, teachers and leaders in Private, Voluntary and independent nurseries, school based nurseries or childminders, who are qualified to at least Level 3 with full and relevant qualifications.
What will I learn?
- To develop expertise that is flexible and allows participants to respond to the challenges they will encounter in a range of contexts.
- It will develop expertise that can be applied to both identifying and addressing persistent and common challenges in nursery leadership
- To ensure that every child gets the best start in life
The NPQ EYL aims to support EY leaders to develop expertise in leading high quality education and care, as well as effective staff and organisational management, through essential knowledge, skills and concepts that underpin successful leadership of a high quality nursery.
Summary of the Programme/NPQ Learning Hours
| Session Type NPQ training (55 hours): | Every Term (3 Terms) | Total Hours (3 Terms) |
|---|---|---|
| Audit before start of programme | 1 | |
| One day induction conference at the beginning of year 1 | 4 | |
| Self-directed learning / Learning journal | 44 | |
| Face to Face Events | 3 x 5 hour | 15 |
| Peer learning group and live sessions | Termly one-hour meeting | 8 |
| Mentoring check in sessions | Termly one-hour meeting | 3 |
| Total hours: | 75 |
Assessment
A unique part of the UCL offer is the implementation project. Each participant will demonstrate how their learning is being implemented in practice through action research or a project that is supported by a facilitated peer learning group to ensure the programme has an impact on an individual’s leadership and the children in their nursery. Once completed, the programme will be assessed through a case study based approach to be completed in an 8 day window.
National Qualification for Leading Teaching
Senior Leadership (NPQSL) is for school leaders who are, or are aspiring to be, a senior leader with cross-school responsibilities.
What will I learn?
- How to contribute to establishing and sustaining the school’s strategic direction and to the development of an effective culture across the school.
- How to develop teaching across the school through effective planning and preparation, and by supporting colleagues to explain and model effectively.
- How to support colleagues to develop the curriculum and assessment.
- How to support colleagues to develop the enabling conditions for good behaviour and support pupils with complex behavioural needs.
- How to ensure all pupils achieve success by supporting colleagues to adapt their teaching to different pupil needs.
- How to ensure colleagues participate in effective professional development.
- Organisational management (safeguarding, resource allocation and management, recruitment).
- Effective implementation and change management.
- Working in partnership with parents, the community and with other schools.
- Governance and accountability.
Summary of the Programme/NPQ Learning Hours
| Session Type NPQ training (55 hours): | Every Term (3 Terms) | Total Hours (3 Terms) |
|---|---|---|
| Audit before start of programme | 2 | |
| One day induction conference at the beginning of year 1 | 4 | |
| Face to face events - Terms 2, 3 & 4 | 15 | |
| Self-directed learning / Learning journal / Implementation project | 13 hours per term (minimum) | 39 |
| Online learning community: Discussion session | 1 hour each term (minimum) | 3 |
| Peer learning group | 2 hours each term | 8 |
| Line manager sessions | Termly one-hour meeting | 4 |
| Total hours: | 75 |
National Professional Qualification for Headship
Headship (NPQH)* is for school leaders who are, or are aspiring to be, a headteacher or head of school with responsibility for leading a school.
What will I learn?
- The strategic and operational role of a headteacher.
- How to work with those responsible for governance to establish and sustain the school’s strategic direction and develop an effective culture across the school.
- How to ensure that teaching across the school is effective, transforming pupils’ knowledge understanding and stimulates their thinking.
- How to oversee the design and implementation of carefully sequenced, broad and coherent curricula across the school.
- How to ensure that assessment is of high-quality and as reliable as possible without creating unnecessary workload.
- How to establish and sustain the enabling conditions for good behaviour and ensure that pupils with complex behavioural needs are supported.
- How to ensure all pupils achieve success by supporting colleagues to adapt their teaching to different pupil needs without creating unnecessary workload.
- How to ensure colleagues participate in effective professional development.
- Organisational management (safeguarding, resource allocation and management; recruit, develop, support and appropriately manage all colleagues).
- Effective implementation and change management.
- Working in partnership with parents, the community and with other schools.
- Governance and accountability.
Summary of the Programme/NPQ Learning Hours
| Session Type NPQ training (55 hours): | Every Term (3 Terms) | Total Hours (3 Terms) |
|---|---|---|
| Audit before start of programme | 2 | |
| One day induction conference at the beginning of year 1 | 4 | |
| Face to face events - Terms 2, 3 & 4 | 15 | |
| Self-directed learning / Learning journal / Implementation project | 13 hours per term (minimum) | 39 |
| Online learning community: Discussion session | 1 hour each term (minimum) | 3 |
| Peer learning group | 2 hours each term | 8 |
| Line manager sessions | Termly one-hour meetings | 4 |
| Total hours: | 75 |
National Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership
Executive Leadership (NPQEL): for school leaders who are, or are aspiring to be, an executive headteacher or a school trust CEO role with responsibility for leading several schools. The work of Executive Leaders is overwhelmingly strategic and relies on working with and through their colleagues to ensure every pupil gets an excellent education.
What will I learn?
- How to work with those responsible for governance to establish and sustain the trust’s strategic direction and develop an effective culture across the trust.
- How to ensure that teaching across the trust is effective, transforming pupils’ knowledge understanding and stimulates their thinking.
- How to support colleagues across the trust to design carefully sequenced, broad and coherent curricula; and ensure that assessment processes are of high-quality and as reliable as possible without creating unnecessary workload.
- How to ensure that trust schools establish and sustain the enabling conditions for good behaviour and ensure that pupils with complex behavioural needs are supported.
- How to ensure that all trust schools have appropriate support to meet pupils’ individual needs without creating unnecessary workload.
- How to ensure that all trust schools support colleagues to engage in effective professional development.
- How to create and oversee appropriate systems for safeguarding pupils and colleagues, resource management and risk management across the trust.
- How to create and oversee systems for recruiting, developing, supporting and appropriately managing all colleagues across the trust.
- Effective implementation and change management.
- How to ensure schools across the trust work in partnership with parents, the community and with other schools.
Summary of the Programme/NPQ Learning Hours
| Programme Component | Total Learning Time |
|---|---|
| 1 Initial learning audit | 1 hour |
| 1 Online induction conference | Half a day |
| 3 Online self-directed study modules | 30 hours |
| 2 Residentials | 4 days |
| 4 Peer learning group sessions | 8 hours |
| 6 Coaching sessions | 6 hours |
| Total hours: | 75 |
