After three years working as a nursery Early Years Professional, and six in social work, Lauren Coates decided to become an early years teacher. She chose the School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) course offered by the Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) – a one-year programme providing Qualified Teacher Status.
Ms Coates began the course in September 2015, and at first spent two days a week studying at CREC in Birmingham, and three in placement. This reduced to one day of lessons towards the end. Classes covered pedagogical knowledge, theoretical perspectives, multi-agency working and special needs. She was in a group of 12, rather than large lectures. ‘Everything is linked to your placement,’ says Ms Coates. ‘If on a Thursday and Friday we looked at safeguarding, the week after we’d have a task to go into placement and see what they were doing on that.’
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