Early Years Initial Teacher Training (EYITT) Early Years Teacher Status

Edge Hill University

Postgraduate

In Ormskirk

£ 3001-4000

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Ormskirk

  • Duration

    2 Years

High quality early years education and childcare can have a powerful impact on young children, preparing them for school and later life. Achieving Early Years Teacher Status will ensure you gain deserved recognition for developing your expertise as a leader and reflective practitioner, as well as demonstrating that you meet the Teachers’ Standards (Early Years) and have in-depth knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

There are three distinctive Early Years Initial Teacher Training routes available, reflecting the diverse needs and backgrounds of applicants seeking Early Years Teacher Status:

Graduate Entry Route – 12 months (Full Time) is suitable if you have a degree and wish to pursue a career in Early Years;
Graduate Employment-based Route – 12 months (Part Time) is suitable if you are currently working in an Early Years setting but require further training/experience in order to demonstrate the Teachers’ Standards (Early Years). This employment-based route is also suitable for graduates who are newly recruited to an Early Years setting;
Assessment Only Route – 3 months is suitable if you are a graduate able to demonstrate the Teachers’ Standards (Early Years) across the birth to five age range without any further training or placement experience.
Upon successful completion of the appropriate route, you will be a specialist in early years care and education with the vision, commitment and drive required to lead practice, support colleagues, influence change and improve the outcomes for young children in Early Years provision.

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Location

Start date

Ormskirk (Lancashire)
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St Helens Road, L39 4QP

Start date

On request

About this course

Achieving Early Years Teacher Status is an excellent foundation to progress into teaching nursery and reception classes in academies, free schools and independent schools. It also provides a springboard to lead practice in pre-schools, Children’s Centres, foundation stage units and child-minding networks and is a valuable starting point for a career in private day care regional management.

Early Years Teacher Status will significantly enhance your ability to effect change in settings, communicate ideas for effective change to other staff, and assist you in becoming involved in supporting others through mentoring, coaching and leading professional development activities. You will have the ability and knowledge to create, inspire and lead the best practice with young children.

To cater for applicants from a range of backgrounds, settings and roles, the route you undertake will be based on your qualifications and experience.

We can help you to choose the right route to become an Early Years Teacher, with appropriate and sufficient time being trained in Early Years settings or schools to enable you to meet all of the Teachers’ Standards (Early Years).

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Subjects

  • Early Years
  • Initial Teacher
  • School
  • Teacher Training
  • Teacher
  • EYITT
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Planning
  • Child Development
  • Early maths
  • Early reading and phonics
  • EYFS

Course programme

The programme will prepare you to teach across the 0-5 age range (the Early Years Foundation Stage) and engage you with the expectations and curricula of teaching in Key Stages 1 and 2.

You will reflect upon your practice in the context of the Teachers’ Standards (Early Years) which indicate what Early Years Teachers must know, understand and be able to demonstrate.

  • Graduate Entry Route – you will be required to undertake 120 days (24 weeks) on placement in Early Years settings or schools. Face-to-face sessions will cover content such as the fundamentals of early years, Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), enabling environments, safeguarding, inclusion, positive relationships/behaviour, child development, leadership and management, planning and assessment, early maths, early reading and phonics, and the National Curriculum Key Stage 1 continuum;
  • Graduate Employment-based Route – face-to-face sessions will cover content such as the fundamentals of early years, enabling environments, inclusion, child development, leadership and management, planning and assessment, managing behaviour for learning, early maths, early reading and phonics, and the National Curriculum Key Stage 1 continuum;
  • Assessment Only Route – there are no face-to-face sessions or conference days on the assessment only route.

Please note, in order to achieve Early Years Teacher Status, you are required to have taught across a minimum of two settings. Therefore, if you are applying to join an employment-based route, you should be aware that you will be required to gain experience in a second setting for up to six weeks.

How will I study?

Attendance requirements vary depending on the route you are joining:

  • Graduate Entry Route – a minimum of 120 block placement days across two settings, alongside face-to-face sessions. An inducation day will take place in September 2017;
  • Graduate Employment-based Route – 8-10 face-to-face days spread across 12 months, i.e less than one day per month out of your setting or school. An induction day will take place in September 2017;
  • Assessment Only Route – an induction day will take place in September 2017.

Face-to-face sessions are delivered at Edge Hill University.

Additional information

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees vary depending on the route you are joining. The following applies if you are enrolling on an Early Years Teacher Status route in academic year 2017/18: Graduate Entry Route / Graduate Employment-based Route – tuition fees are covered by the National College for Teaching and Leadership; Assessment Only Route – self-funded by yourself and/or your employer at a cost of £1,995.

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