Cornwall SCITT’s ITT Curriculum is ambitious and is designed with the full knowledge of our partner schools, who identified with us the key knowledge, skills and research that Early Careers Teachers should understand.

Our curriculum is carefully sequenced in order to help our trainees swiftly enter classrooms with an essential set of tools that will enable them to be successful in the early months of their practice. 

Centre-based training and on-placement experiences are aligned to allow trainees to understand the theory/practice interface from the outset of the course. Placement training is closely aligned to centre-based training and is designed to consolidate and deepen learning.

Our curriculum is research-informed, with key theorists (Alexander; Bennett; Bloom; Florian; Hattie; Kolb; Maslow; Rosenshine; Wiliam; named subject specialists; trainees' own findings from written assignments) underpinning our approach.

Our curriculum is evidence-based, using findings from the EEF; Ofsted research reports and subject surveys; BERA; school-based research and lesson observations.

It consists of seven curriculum contexts which incorporate and go beyond the minimum requirements of the CCF.

Our Curriculum is sequenced to progressively explore and develop the skills trainees are acquiring by examining relevant and up-to-date research. This research is carefully chosen by a team of teachers and leaders from the SCITT Partnership to meet the values, vision and direction of our local context, as well as national priorities in education.