Leadership Development

In the UK today, if a child doesn’t have basic literacy skills by age 7, they will struggle to catch up.

Teach First believes that excellent teachers can close this achievement gap, and works to achieve this by developing participants, through the Leadership Development Programme, to become outstanding classroom leaders in schools in challenging circumstances, committed to leading in their classrooms and tackling educational disadvantage. Participants work to raise the achievement, access and aspirations of their pupils. This means helping to ensure that all the students they work with achieve the highest academic achievements, providing them with access to high-quality teaching, and broadening their perceptions and aspirations around what they can achieve in their lives.

The Teach First Leadership Development Programme combines working, training and qualifying as a teacher with leadership development training, coaching and mentoring. This focuses on developing them as a leader of learning as well as giving the participants skills and knowledge around leading organisations and leading people. On completion of all the commitments to the Leadership Development Programme, participants become Teach First ambassadors and join a growing movement of people who are committed to continuing to address educational disadvantage throughout their lives, whichever career they choose to take up long-term.

Alongside the Leadership Development Programme there are also opportunities for networking and internships. Participants also have the opportunity to work towards a Masters qualification to further develop their leadership skills and knowledge of education.