Teacher leaders are crucial partners in facilitating school change that has a direct and meaningful impact on student learning. The middle leader certificate programme translates quality research around teacher leadership into a credible professional pathway. The programme identifies and nurtures the skills and behaviours needed to be an effective teacher leader who influences their school community.

For more than ten years, the International Teacher Certificate (ITC) has empowered teachers from across the world to change their schools, themselves, and the lives of their students. The certificate programme follows the definition of global competence as proposed by the OECD: “the capacity to analyse global and intercultural issues critically and from multiple perspectives, to understand how differences affect perceptions, judgements, and ideas of self and others, and to engage in open, appropriate, and effective interactions with others from different backgrounds on the basis of a shared respect for human dignity.”

Following one year of course redesign, ITC 2.0 launches in spring 2019!

PROTECTING THE STUDENTS IN OUR CARE

Protecting the children in our care is our most important job; learning itself depends on a child feeling safe. ECIS Child Protection Certificates set the benchmark for quality training for international schools.

ECIS Child Protection Certificates are designed for three distinct audiences, enabling your school to meet compliance standards for accreditation or inspections for:

• support staff,
• teachers and leaders,
• governors and owners.

The certificates each retail at £40, or licences are free as part of our membership packages.

The duty of care and stewardship that comes with serving on the governing body of the school cannot be understated; it is of immense importance, when we consider the lives we are preparing. Yet members of the governing body need to be careful that they do not spend all their time in the fiduciary mode of governance, focusing exclusively on finances, integrity, compliance, and legal liabilities. Boards need to get it right, of course, yet to hold the school ‘in trust’ for others necessitates that board members exercise the strategic and generative modes as well, ensuring a healthy and strong school for years to come. There are few more rewarding experiences in life.

Our partner Teach-Now provides a unique teaching model for those wishing to obtain their teaching qualification: rather than enrolling in several courses in a single term, candidates progress through a series of intense, comprehensive modules of different lengths, taken in sequence.  The programme’s project/activity-based, collaborative learning model means candidate learning occurs synchronously, in mandatory virtual class sessions with 10 to 15 candidates in the learning cohort and the instructor, and asynchronously, outside of the scheduled virtual classes.