Guidance on initial teacher training provision published

The DfE has published guidance to help initial teacher training (ITT) providers how to continue with assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The DfE has already announced it will enable ITT providers to make judgements on trainees based on assessments already completed and each trainee’s current trajectory of progress towards meeting the teachers’ standards.

The guidance says that trainees making adequate progress towards the teachers’ standards, where the ITT provider judges that the trainee would have completed their ITT course successfully, should be recommended for QTS at the end of their course.

It does say however that "these allowances do not, under any circumstances, give trainees a ‘free pass’ and ITT providers should not make any recommendation for QTS without giving full consideration to a trainee’s progress and available evidence."

The arrangements set out in this guidance are subject to secondary legislation.

The guidance can be found here.