Early Years Teacher Training

Employment-based training to achieve Early Years Teacher Status

Q&A Session with:

Gill Williams, Head of Early Years Teacher Training

Phil Manley, Marketing Executive

Benefits of Early Years Teacher Status:

• EYTS is designed to enable EY professionals to deliver a consistently high level of childcare and education

• Enables a setting to upskill members of their team, who in turn lead by example, raising the professional standards of their colleagues

• Staff with EYTS can increase parent trust in a setting

• Trainees are employed by a setting, with 10% of their employed time spent on training days and coursework.

• DfE funds training and provides employer settings with a £7,000 incentive

Eligibility Criteria:

• GCSE Grade C/4 or above (or recognised equivalent) in English language, maths and science.

• A Bachelor’s degree (from any area of study)

• Right to study and work in the UK

• A position of employment within an early years setting •

Training and Assessment

• Throughout the course, trainees have online training sessions every 2-3 weeks.

• Training is 100% online. Assessment is continuous throughout the course with reviews each half term.

• Trainees compile an ePortfolio of evidence which includes examples of your planning and teaching, leading practice, reflections and research. The ePortfolio is uploaded and stored on our online platform, accessible to a trainee, their mentor and tutor.

• Trainees will have a placement in reception year to teach phonics and maths (2 blocks of 10 mornings minimum), normally in the Spring term.

• Trainees demonstrate that they meet the Teachers Standards Early Years and mastery of the EYITT curriculum.

Our curriculum is created using eleven key components, each of which fit together to provide a comprehensive introduction to the core body of knowledge, skills and behaviours that define great Early Years teaching.

• Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and assessment requirements

• A positive and enabling environment

• Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

• Substantive knowledge of the Early Years Curriculum, Key Stage 1 and 2

• Knowledge of sustained synthetic phonics and early mathematics

• Knowledge of how children learn

• Specific pedagogies for teaching children aged 0-5

• Leading and modelling practice with colleagues, parents and carers and other professionals

• Statutory frameworks

• Inclusion and Diversity

• Health and Wellbeing

Curriculum Intent:

To produce EY teachers who are:

• Confident professionals who reflect habitually on their own practice and learn effectively from the work of their peers.

• Intellectually curious, able to engage with and evaluate the best available evidence research of our profession.

• Innovative and adaptable; confident to make decisions to improve the outcomes of the pupils they teach.

• Cognisant of the professional responsibilities of a teacher and aware of their part in creating an equality of experience for all pupils.