When trainees are awarded a place on the course an Initial Needs Analysis (INA) takes place that highlights skills already demonstrated and areas for development.  This will include audits of subject knowledge and requirements for Initial Teacher Training (ITT).  This analysis is reviewed half termly, to ensure that emerging needs are built into an Individual Training Plan (ITP). The ITP aims to provide trainees with a live and working framework against which they can progress and against which development can be gauged.   

Bradford College works with the Wakefield Partnership for Initial Teacher Training (WPITT) to ensure relevant subject development for primary-based trainees.

From September 2008, all GTP trainees with WPITT will be able to take advantage

Trainees are assisted in this process by a comprehensive support package.  This provision includes backing from a trained and experienced school-based trainer (SBT), the school ITT coordinator, and a WPITT consultant.

Based on the INAs and the ITPs of the trainees, WPITT offers a programme to complement the schools-based Professional Studies Programme and address the explicit needs of the trainee.

The programme addresses the needs of school-based trainers, with scheduled induction for new school-based trainers, joint trainee and school-based trainer sessions, ITT coordinator partnership meetings, and termly separate school-based trainer and trainee network meetings where individual training needs can be addressed.

A comprehensive training programme is offered, including specific courses in vital skills such as Behaviour Management and Data and Assessment handling.  Termly Network Meetings offer both discrete courses and complementary training offered where common needs raised through the INA can be addressed.

From September 2008, all WPITT trainees will be able to access 30 credits at Masters Level offered in partnership with Huddersfield University. 

Launched on 7 March 2008, the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) is a new practice-based, masters-level professional qualification.  The project will begin by targeting the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MT) mainly on teachers in the first 5 years of their careers. WPITT graduates working for Wakefield will also be able to access an additional 30 credits in their NQT year to give them a total of 60 credits toward their MTL.