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Initial Teacher Training (ITT) providers

Offer more holistic and creative placements to trainee teachers

Settings other than schools

Develop lasting partnerships with teachers, schools and young people in your area

Trainee teachers

Gain new insights into teaching and learning by working in partnership with children and young people professionals outside school

Teaching Outside the Classroom supports the development of placements for trainee teachers in settings other than schools. This website helps you set up and evaluate placements, and provides case studies of existing good practice.

Free Twilight Events

All partners across the country are invited to attend free twilight events organised by TOtC in partnership with Learning Outside the Classroom. The events will be running from March to June 2009. Download a schedule of these events so far here. More event information will be confirmed shortly.

 

Download the Department for children, schools and families press release (56 KB Word document)

 

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“We believe that every young person should experience the real world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and personal development, whatever their age, ability or circumstances”

Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto

“The placement was one of the most inspirational weeks of my teaching life so far. The tutors were knowledgeable and motivating, I loved every minute of it!”

ITT trainee, London

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