I am very proud to have achieved QTLS status which greatly enhances my credibility in my educational roles. It has also allowed me to fulfil my conditional offer from the University of Oxford to study for an MSc in Learning and Teaching.

Helen Tinkler, QTLS, Solicitor, Chief Examiner and Chief External Assessor

Since notifying the employment agencies of my new QTLS status, I have already been offered a maths teaching position. It is a great feeling when employers are constantly ringing to check my availability; this is a proof that QTLS is really important.

Anzoumana Gbane, QTLS, GCSE and Functional Skills maths teacher

Gain QTLS: enhance your professional status across the sector and advance your career

About QTLSQualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) is a professional status that you can gain by successfully completing professional formation. This process enables you to demonstrate how you are continuing to develop and apply the skills and knowledge gained from your initial teacher education qualification to your practice.

The Society for Education and Training (through its parent organisation the Education and Training Foundation) is the only body that can confer QTLS status.

Who is it for?❱ Teachers, trainers and professionals working in the further

education and training sector.

❱ Qualified FE teachers working as teaching assistants, tutorsor instructors in schools or sixth form colleges.

❱ Teachers or trainers who have recently completed theirinitial teacher training, as well as those who already haveexperience of teaching.

Benefits of gaining QTLSMore than 15,000 professionals have achieved QTLS since its introduction in 2008:

In terms of career progression, QTLS status demonstrates your commitment, skills and knowledge to employers

It is recognition of your status as a professional teacher or trainer

QTLS status is recognised in law as having parity to QTS for teaching in schools

It provides valuable continuing professional development (CPD) that builds confidence and enhances your skills

Members with QTLS can use these initials as a designation

Group 1

Group 1 combined with Group 3

Group 2 Group 3

Check your eligibility❱ You must be a member of SET

To become a SET member, please fill in our membership form online: https://set.et-foundation.co.uk/membership-form Or call: (freephone) 0800 093 9111 (local call) 0203 092 5001

❱ You must hold an initial teacher education qualification at Level 5, equivalent to the Diploma in Education and Training (DET) or the Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (DTLLS) and have achieved English and maths qualifications at Level 2.

Teachers currently employed in England in a post-16 teaching role who hold an overseas initial teacher education qualification are also eligible to apply.

How do I apply?

1STEP

Choose your application ‘window’ and registerIn 2015-16, the three registration ‘windows’ are open during:

❱ 1 December 2015 - 29 January 2016

❱ 1 April 2016 - 31 May 2016

❱ 1 September 2016 - 31 October 2016

2STEP

Submit your QTLS feeThe fee to undertake QTLS is £485, payable in two instalments: £100 upon registration and £385 on submission of your application to SET for review.

Completion and submission of your workbookOnce you have joined SET and have registered for QTLS, you will be issued with an on-line workbook in REfLECT+. This is an on-line learning space where you document how you are continuing to develop your skills and subject knowledge in your current practice, underpinned by the 2014 Professional Standards.

You will need to:

❱ Support your narrative with evidence, including (though not exclusively) schemes of work, lesson plans, teaching and learning resources and observations of teaching and learning. Your workbook will be reviewed and moderated by the SET professional formation team.

❱ Nominate a supporter, normally a work colleague or line manager who holds a teaching qualification. Your supporter should be someone who can endorse your application and who has observed your teaching.

3STEP

Conferral of QTLSSuccessful candidates can download and print their QTLS certificate from REfLECT+ and their names will be added to the Professional Status Register (https://set.et-foundation.co.uk/professionalism/qtls-register/). They will also receive a hard copy of their certificate from SET. Please note that in order to remain on the Professional Status Register, you need to be a current member of SET.

Applicants who do not initially meet the criteria following the review of their workbook, will have an opportunity to reapply submitting the further evidence outlined in their feedback.

4STEP

Contact us Society for Education and Training,

157-197 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9SP, UK.

(freephone) 0800 093 9111 (local call) 0203 092 5001

membership.enquiries@etfoundation.co.uk https://set.et-foundation.co.uk

For more information about QTLS and the application process, please visit the SET website: https://set.et-foundation.co.uk/qtls