What is it Like to Train With Educate?

If you want to gain QTS through a practical, ‘hands-on’, school-based route in a school of your choice, then Educate Initial Teacher Training is for you. Educate is a large ITT provider, with a long-standing reputation for successful Primary and Secondary QTS programmes based in varied and diverse partner schools.

You have the unique opportunity to train in a school near to where you live and gain QTS with a PGCE (60 Master’s credits), validated by Leeds Beckett University.

Trainees spend a full-time year teaching and training in schools and also attend provider-led lecture/workshop sessions to enhance subject knowledge, general classroom practice and teaching pedagogy. To support trainees, provider-led training takes place once a week and is predominantly online, reducing both the time and cost of travel to trainees. Centralised training sessions cover content such as High Expectations, Behaviour Management, How Pupils Learn, Adaptive Teaching, Classroom Practice, Curriculum and Assessment in line with the Core Content Framework. This is supplemented by opportunities to observe other teachers in a range of school settings and to undertake a variety of school-based training enhancements, including a six-week placement in a contrasting school and short placement visits to other schools.

• “Educate Group Initial Teacher Training has created a strong sense of community that trainees value.”
• “Trainees spoke highly of the wide range of support that is available to them, including for their well-being.”
• “Leaders have designed an ambitious and flexible ITE curriculum that suits trainees’ individual circumstances, while preparing them sufficiently well to embark on a career in teaching.”
• “Ensures that trainees become fully immersed in the realities of what it means to be a teacher.”

(Ofsted, 2024).

With Educate, Trainees enjoy the advantage of an ‘on the job’ experience, where the realities of life as a teacher are fully explored and understood.

We are a National Provider in England with School Partnerships across Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, Cheshire, Shropshire, East Midlands, and North West.

Please contact us to find out if we operate in your location.

Placements.

We take careful account of each trainee’s individual circumstances, including home location, caring responsibilities and travel considerations, when allocating placements. Whilst we cannot always guarantee a specific school or distance, every effort is made to secure a placement that is practical, balancing personal circumstances with school availability, capacity, and the overall quality of the training experience.

Once an offer of a place has been accepted, the Educate team will begin sourcing a suitable placement. Trainees are expected to engage proactively in this process, maintaining communication with Educate and, where appropriate, with potential placement schools to arrange visits and confirm suitability. We always aim to confirm placements as early as possible, though the timeframe can vary depending on school availability and capacity.

*If you are currently working or volunteering in a school and they would like to support you with your teacher training, we are always happy to discuss this with you and your school.