1. Fast Track Teaching Regional Representative
Introduction
(Chris Mitten)
Fast Track Teaching Regional Representative
(South West)

2. Presentation overview
What is Fast Track?
Benefits - To a qualified teacher
- To a school/ LA
Professional development
Eligibility
The recruitment process

3. What is Fast Track?
An accelerated leadership development programme for teachers in their early years
Provides a highly personalised programme of coaching, mentoring and development activities
Supports teachers in developing skills required for a senior leadership role in education

4. Benefits – to a qualified teacher
Access to professional development events specially created for Fast Track teachers
Funding towards NPQH and Leadership Pathways and support for AST applications
Access to a structured support network of staff – through an in-school mentor, independent PLT and Central Support Team

5. Benefits – to a school/ LA
You will have a teacher that takes on extra responsibilities which have a whole school impact and will take on a Senior leadership position sooner
Fast Track teachers are encouraged to disseminate their experience and skills to colleagues
Supports the development of talented teachers into senior leadership roles – helping to grow tomorrow’s leaders
It supports recruitment by giving access to a national pool of Fast Track teachers
It provides secondment opportunities within the LA

6. Professional Development
The programme is based around the following
development opportunities and support
structures:
Professional Development events
Wider School Focus
Support and mentoring
The Fast Track community

7. Professional Development Events
Including (see website for full list):
Consulting and influencing skills for leaders
NLP for teachers and school leaders
Coaching for leadership
Creative leadership

8. Wider School Focus
Needs to provide a direct link with and opportunity for progression on to NPQH and/or AST assessment
The work needs to be an area that will create genuine change and links to improvement priorities
Should enable a Fast Track teacher to apply to Development stage of NPQH within months of being started

9. Wider school Focus
Managing move from parent’s evening to parent’s review day
Implementing ‘assessment for learning’ scheme
Implementing an accelerated learning scheme
Leading ICT teacher across the network
Member of School Change Team

10. Support and mentoring Personal Leadership Tutors In-school mentor
Independent of the school.
Set-up visit and termly telephone coaching sessions
In-school mentor
An experienced leader or senior manager within the school.
Key supporting role in the leadership work of Fast Track teachers
Central Support Team
Liaison with schools
Guiding Fast Track teachers in their choice of teaching posts

11. The Fast Track community
Talk2learn – collaborative learning through the provision of:
Learning journals
Hotseats
Discussion forums
E-learning activities
Networking with other Fast Track teachers at residential courses or regional events

12. Eligibility To be eligible for Fast Track, qualified teachers require:
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) in the UK
To be registered with the GTCE
To be pre-threshold on the main pay scale

13. The Recruitment Process
Apply on-line by completing the Self-Assessment Questionnaire and filling out the competency based application form. Accessed through our website at
Applications must be supported by a reference from the teacher’s headteacher or performance management team leader
One day assessment centre

14. Devon Candidate Briefings
November 6th South; KEVICCS in Totnes
November 13th Mid; Great Moor House in Exeter
November 20th North; The Park Community School in Barnstaple

15. Application deadlines
Intake 1
Application Deadline: 26th November 2006
Reference Deadline : 10th December 2006
Assessment Centres: January to mid-March 2007
Start Date: Summer term, 2007
Intake 2
Application Deadline: 8th April 2007
Reference Deadline: 22nd April 2007
Assessment Centres: mid-May to mid-July 2007
Start Date: Autumn term, 2007