National Professional Qualifications Overview
The new and updated suite of NPQs offers the best possible support to teachers and leaders to help them become more effective teachers and leaders inside and outside the classroom.
There are five leadership NPQs available:
- Senior Leadership
- Headship
- Executive Leadership
- Early Years Leadership
- Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO)
Note that there is also an Early Headship Coaching Offer, see below for more details.
There are now five specialist NPQs:
- Leading Teacher Development
- Leading Behaviour and Culture
- Leading Teaching
- Leading Literacy
- Leading Primary Mathematics
Read our EBook to find out more about all the NPQ programmes on offer.
For more detailed information on our suite of NPQs visit here:
Early Headship Coaching Offer (Previously known as the ‘Additional Support Offer for New Headteachers’)
This DfE fully funded, unassessed support programme, provides a great opportunity for new headteachers within their first two years of headship who have done an NPQH or are currently doing NPQH to follow a personalised pathway of support activities. Options include one to one leadership coaching, learning networks, access to a library of latest research and ‘core business’ recordings about practical aspects of headship. Attached you will find a programme overview, alternatively visit the Best Practice webpage or contact headshipsupport@bestpracticenet.co.uk for more information.