1. Society for Education and Training

2. All you need to know about QTLS
July 2016

3. Purpose of the session To provide an overview of the QTLS process:
The benefits of joining SET
What is professional formation?
Stages and timescales and how to gain QTLS
Eligibility
Collecting and collating your evidence
Using REfLECT+
Review and moderation process
What makes a good application? 3

4. SET Benefits
Free face-to-face regional CPD events and monthly webinars
Eligibility to apply for QTLS
A quarterly journal InTuition and monthly InTuition Extra
Discounted access to CPD courses provided by the ETF
Support for practitioner research and access to academic articles
Online content, articles and blogs
Online communities of practice and local member networks

5. QTLS benefits
QTLS status is recognised in law as having parity with QTS for teaching in schools
Career progression: QTLS status demonstrates your commitment, skills and knowledge to employers
It is recognition of your status as a professional teacher or trainer
Valuable CPD that builds confidence and enhances your skills
An opportunity to plan and record your CPD activity, working collaboratively with your mentor and peers throughout the process
A redesigned forward looking process, enabling you to demonstrate progression and impact on your practice
Members with QTLS can use these initials as a designation
Career progression - your QTLS status demonstrates your commitment, skills and knowledge to employers
Recognition of your status as a professional teacher or trainer
Valuable continuing professional development (CPD) that builds confidence and enhances your skills
A redesigned, forward-looking professional formation process with more opportunities to demonstrate your progression
A unique opportunity to plan and record your CPD activity, drawing on relevant educational theory and research and working collaboratively with others
On-going valuable support from your mentor right from the start of the process
QTLS status is recognised in law as equal to QTS for teaching in schools
Members with QTLS can use the initials as a designation and display a QTLS digital pin on their online profiles. (include digital pin)

6. What do members say?
“Since notifying the employment agencies of my new status (QTLS), I have already been offered a maths teaching position for September. It is a great feeling when employers are constantly ringing to check my availability; this is proof that being a qualified teacher with QTLS is really important.”
Anzoumana Gbane QTLS, Functional Maths Teacher, July 2015

7. What do members say?
“The sense of achievement having QTLS after my name is amazing in addition to my supporter statement and the QTLS moderator who said my application was exceptional!”
JC QTLS, 2015

8. What is professional formation?
A post-qualification CPD opportunity that enables you to demonstrate your continued:
ability to use effectively the skills and knowledge acquired whilst training to be a teacher or trainer
application of the professional standards required of a teacher or trainer
A combination of narrative and supporting evidence that highlights developments in your practice
An opportunity to critically reflect on your teaching or training in order to improve your practice.
Takes a minimum of 4 months to complete

9. Stages of Professional Formation
Timescales: 3 cycles in the year: Spring, Summer and Winter
Next registration window opens on 1 September, closing on 31 October, with a deadline of
28 February 2017
Cost: £485 (initial deposit of £100)

10. Key changes from 1 September
We are introducing changes to improve QTLS
It will be a richer developmental experience, enabling you to plan and record your continuing professional development
It will enable you to critically reflect and show the impact on your teaching and your learners, linking theory and practice
It will enable you to work collaboratively with colleagues

11. Eligibility
Evidence of an endorsed ITE qualification at Level 5, eg DET, PGCE
Recently qualified teachers need to have achieved their ITE qualification for at least six months before submitting their completed workbooks for review
Maths and English qualifications at Level 2 or above
Teaching learners aged 14+
Declaration of personal suitability (fitness to practise)
A supporter or mentor who you can support you throughout the process

12. The Professional Formation Cycle
1. Self-assessment
2. Professional development plan
3. CPD record
4. Critical reflection
5. Final action plan

13. Personalised elements
About you: roles and responsibilities
Self assessment against the 2014 professional standards
Professional development plan
CPD record that highlights professional updating
Critical reflection on impact
Final action plan
NB: No evidence from your ITE!

14. Your Reflect Workbook

15. The review and moderation process
All reviewers have achieved QTLS
It is an online process in REfLECT
Meetings are held to review and resolve queries
Tight timescales in working towards final evaluation meeting so that each review is completed within one month
Rigorous but flexible process, resulting in over 90% achievement rates
Opportunity to reapply

16. What makes a good application?
Strong evidence of:
Critical reflection - how the applicant has reflected on feedback from a range of sources to improve practice
Application of theory to practice
Impact on applicant’s practice, the outcomes of their learners and their organisation
Reference to the 2014 professional standards

17. Steps for applying for QTLS
Check your eligibility
Choose your registration window and register, paying an initial deposit of £100
Decide on who will be your supporter
Complete your on-line workbook, using the PF Planner and Technical Guide for support
Send your completed workbook to us by the deadline date, paying the final balance of fees

18. Further information
SET website ETF website Foundation online learning On-line self assessment tool Guidance for Headteachers Excellence Gateway QTLS eligibility criteria Spring 2016 Professional Formation Planner SET Membership enquiries 25

19. Further information
Tricia Odell Programme Manager, QTLS 25