Our School Partnerships Office will source your placements, taking into account your passions, preferences and personal circumstances. You'll be allocated a subject tutor, who will work with you to ensure you're ready to go into school.
After you've completed your first five weeks of University-based training, you'll start your first eight-week placement. This will give you the chance to put into practice what you've learnt in a collaborative working environment. You'll work closely with your school-based subject mentor.
In January, you'll complete a second placement in a different school. This will help you deepen your knowledge of how students learn, and extend your practice in helping that learning, in a new context. This long placement - split across stages two and three, from January until June - gives you the chance to develop your practice in a school and with pupils you will get to know really well. This offers an opportunity to make a positive impact on progress in that school.
During your second placement, you'll spend at least ten weeks in a new school teaching more lessons, ensuring that you're teaching classes from Key Stages 3 and 4. You'll become a more independent practitioner.
You'll stay in the same school for a further ten weeks, teaching more classes from Key Stages 3 and 4, and have the chance to observe and teach at Key Stage 5. Having extended experience in the same placement means you'll be able to develop your practice well, and show that you're having a positive impact on your pupils. At the end of this placement you'll present evidence on this impact, which will inform your final grade.
Throughout your placements, you'll have the support of a school-based mentor. These mentors are trained by Leeds Trinity to support you as you complete your training and assess your progress against the Teachers' standards. You'll also have a subject and link tutor at Leeds Trinity, who will visit you at school. They will provide quality assurance for your training and offer any support and advice you may need.