A new professional development offer is being developed to help teachers prepare for the roll out of T Levels.

Developed by the Education and Training Foundation, the programme aims to ensure that teachers and trainers have the teaching skills, subject/industry knowledge and confidence needed to deliver T Levels from 2020.

The five key strands of the programme are:

• Teacher development programme: This will focus on pedagogy (core teaching skills and methods); practice (subject knowledge and subject-specific teaching); professional knowledge (industry and employability understanding for teachers); and developing teachers’ capacity to embed maths, English and digital skills in technical teaching environments.
• Ongoing professional development needs analysis
• Understanding T Levels
• Knowledge hubs
• Organisational readiness.

Training is due to begin in spring 2019.