About Us
We are one of the North West’s leading providers of employment-based initial teacher training (usually known as an EBITT). STORM is a limited company working in partnership with schools, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and local authorities in the cities of Manchester and Salford and the Metropolitan Boroughs of Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside and Trafford. Manchester Metropolitan University is commissioned by STORM to deliver the core framework of teacher training and to ensure the academic rigour of the programme. We also provide an innovative range of additional training to support the development of the highest quality of newly qualified teachers.
The Employment Based Route to Teaching Qualification
Employment-based Initial Teacher Training provides an alternative to the Post Graduate Certificate in Education full-time course which is usually undertaken within higher education institutions in an academic year. Our unique partnership with MMU means that we are able to take advantage of the university’s highly-qualified and experienced staff team and our students are also able to dip into elements of the mainstream PGCE course, adding considerable value to their studies. Your qualification on completion of the Graduate Training Programme will be a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching (PGCertT) and you will have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Because you will be training on the job you will have the advantage of absorbing the most up to date thinking in teaching and learning as you progress through your training within a highly skilled professional team of teachers.
The programme begins in September and you continue working throughout the school year at your partner school. You will have an experienced and extremely committed teacher working alongside you as your mentor. Your progress is assessed at the end of each term, concluding with a final assessment in June or July. Assessments are made against the stringent professional standards published by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA). Following final assessment you will be awarded qualified teacher status, or QTS, and your career as a qualified teacher will begin.
The Graduate Teacher Programme is growing rapidly in popularity as more professionals become inspired to move into teaching and more school support staff want to step up into a qualified teacher career. It really is true that nobody forgets a good teacher and that teachers have helped to shape the careers of many great achievers.
