Recent NQT survey confirms high quality of Teacher Training at Southampton

The NQT survey is a voluntary exercise carried out in February each year to collect and analyse NQTs' perceptions of their initial teacher training. It is sent out to all new teachers registered with the General Teaching Council for England. The survey is used to gauge NQTs' views on the quality of their initial teacher training and how well it prepared them for their first year in teaching. The results are used to help shape the NCTL's policies and are shared with universities, colleges and schools involved in initial teacher training.

In particular, the survey results show that Education School scores well above national sector averages in the following areas:

• Establish and maintain a good standard of behaviour
• Record and report pupils’ progress
• Identify and address their own professional needs
• Teaching reading including phonics and comprehension
• Preparing trainees to understand and apply findings from their own educational research
• Guide pupils to reflect on the progress they have made and their emerging needs
• Planning teaching to achieve progression for pupils
• Effectiveness of e-safety training (statistically significantly above average)

“I am very pleased with the outcome of the survey,” says Kate Green, Director of Initial Teacher Education at Southampton. “The results clearly confirm the Initial Teacher Training provision at Southampton to be effective, engaging and robust with programmes that are forward-looking and adaptable.”

Many other areas in the survey were also reported to be above sector average. Examples of these include: using data effectively to support teaching and learning; using other adults effectively to support learning; Learning to teach a specialist subject; learning to teach a range of ability groups effectively.