Excellent employment prospects – 100% over the last two years.
Subject Leaders who are serving teachers.
Ongoing support in your teaching career.
A huge range of placement schools.
Some of the best schools in the country.
PGCE with the University of Gloucestershire.
Join us at one of our Teacher Taster Days and find out more about teaching as a career. There will be an opportunity to meet students, teachers, trainee teachers and teacher trainers and get the answers to your questions.
To see other events that GITEP will be attending, see here.
The 2015/16 Ofsted inspection commented on our “sustained commitment to outstanding teacher training” and “relentless pursuit of excellence”. We were particularly pleased that Ofsted agreed that our trainees “really enjoy teaching”.
We believe that the best place to learn to teach is in school. Our trainees spend most of their time in Partnership schools learning from experienced and highly skilled teachers. GITEP is run on behalf of all the secondary schools in Gloucestershire and led by a management group of headteachers.
Ofsted described GITEP as offering “the richest possible mix of different settings”. The Partnership includes some of the highest performing schools in the country with 7 designated “teaching schools” and 9 schools graded outstanding by Ofsted. Across the Partnership we have schools which are comprehensive, selective, mixed and single sex, urban, rural, high attaining and in more challenging circumstances.
GITEP has been training teachers since 1993. Our trainees are successful and our employment rates are consistently above national figures – almost 100% over the last three years. Last year over 70% of our trainees were employed in Partnership schools. Many of the mentors, training managers and subject leaders are themselves former GITEP trainees. The leadership team is hugely experienced with a long history of involvement in teacher training at all levels.
The purpose of GITEP is to recruit and train the best teachers for our schools. We want trainees to achieve their full potential. Trainees have a mentor and a training manager in their placement schools, a subject leader who meets them weekly and course leaders who know them well.
Although the programme is dominantly school based trainees do have the opportunity to gain a PGCE and most of our trainees do so. The award is validated by the University of Gloucestershire.
Gloucestershire Association of Secondary Headteachers has its own professional development programme and GITEP trainees will be supported through their NQT year and throughout their teaching career.
