Development and training
Eden People promotes staff skills, knowledge, understanding, confidence and wellbeing. Our focus is to ensure that employees of the Trust can grow their professional skills and develop their career in a way that suits them.
The benefits of working for the Eden Academy Trust include:
Staff TrainingÂ
The Eden Academy Trust is dedicated to delivering first class training and education programmes to develop and empower our staff teams.
Our training offer spans a range of subject areas and at different levels of expertise.
We also provide leadership skills training to staff at all levels, including those new to working in schools’.
Induction
We provide a thorough induction programme on joining the Trust, together with an induction provided by the individual school, to give new starters an insight into our schools, our services, our families and our pupils
School based professional development opportunities
Each school runs its own training sessions alongside other opportunities aimed at staff developing the skills they need to be confident and skilled practitioners.
Trust-wide professional development
Eden provides training that expands on school based training. They providing additional support for staff new to working in special schools plus opportunities to extend knowledge in other areas.
The Trust promotes the career pathways for learning support assistants to become teachers. For non-graduates this would be through a 4-year work-based route to a degree with QTS. For graduates we work in partnership with Hillingdon Teaching School Alliance on their primary and early years 1-year SCITT courses.
All training is facilitated by specialists within the Trust.
Routes into teaching
We also promote the career pathways for learning support assistants to become teachers, either through a 4 year work based route to a degree with QTS.
For graduates we work in partnership with Hillingdon Teaching School Alliance on their primary and early years one year SCITT courses.
More details are available and places on these courses are dependent on a successful application and the support of your school.
Teachers new to special school teaching
For those new to teaching (ECTs) and teachers new to special schools the PDSS facilitate a 5 day programme called LEAPS (Learning Education and Achievement of Pupils in Special Schools).
This aims to ensure teachers have all the skills and knowledge they need to adjust their previous teaching experience to a special school setting.