Cambridgeshire Teacher Paid internshipsA two year teacher internship programme - an alternative route to Qualified Teacher Status.What our current interns think....
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How it worksA school/trust/cluster commits to taking on a specific number of interns.We advertise for interns and hold a ‘recruitment day’, which the Headteachers of participating schools will attend, so as to interview and assess candidates. Year oneInterns start in September. Your school pays them NLW1 from 1 September to 30 June(this is 29 hours per week, term time only, at the national living wage). The idea is that they will be supernumerary to your teaching assistant workforce, as they will be receiving training and will be moving around classes/groups so as to receive the complete experience. They will be expected to work as a TA to an extent in the first two terms however, with some team teaching/small group teaching in the third term.If you already have an employee (eg a TA) who you would like to turn into an intern, they don’t necessarily have to take a pay cut – you could keep them on their original salary and pay for the training part of the internship separately.
Each intern will have a mentor within their own school, with whom they will meet on a regular basis. The rota will be organised by the LA’s Senior Adviser: Curriculum, Teaching & Leadership (acting on behalf of Teach in Cambridgeshire) who will also be responsible for monitoring the interns and quality assuring the experience that they receive. During year one, each intern will be expected to keep a portfolio which describes and evaluates the experiences they have had. Near the end of term three, the intern and their Head (with input from the intern’s in-school mentor) will decide whether the intern (a) wants (b) is suitable to continue to year two. Once the decision has been made, the intern needs to apply to the The Cambridge Partnership (the named Cambridgeshire provider) to become a Teacher Apprentice. They are ready to proceed to….. The participating school will give the intern a 75% timetable, which should not include Fridays (as that is when they will receive training from The Cambridge Partnership). They will pay them at the rate of an unqualified teacher at scale point one; the intern’s training will be paid for from the school’s/Trust’s apprenticeship levy. Once the intern has achieved QTS, by the end of June, they should be paid as a qualified teacher until the end of term. Their Apprenticeship end-point assessment will take place during this time.
Total costs involved:Total costs involved (for 2020-2022: Year one: salary for the intern (plus pension & NI costs) £400 admin charge payable to the LA’s Curriculum, Teaching & Leadership Team. Year two: salary for the intern (plus pension & NI costs) £150 admin charge payable to the LA’s Curriculum, Teaching & Leadership Team.
For further information on paid internships please see https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/school-experience/paid-internships
For further information on Cambridgeshire paid internships please see https://www.teachincambs.org.uk/train-to-teach/cambridge-paid-teacher-internship/.
The Teaching Internship Programme for Maths and Physics UndergraduatesMaths and Physics Undergraduates considering a career in teaching could apply for the CMAT paid internship programme (summer 2019), please see link below for more information.
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