You are required to hold either QTLS or QTS. For QTLS see Route A or Route C.
For QTLS for teachers of literacy, numeracy or ESOL, you must also gain subject specific qualifications via Route F or Route G
Qualifications requirements: PTLLS & DTLLS
Status required: QTLS following professional formation
Timescale: within 5 years
Qualifications requirements: Gaining recognition of prior experience and qualifications as equivalent to being part or fully qualified, i.e. through APL, Tariff database of Legacy Qualifications (TLQ), Professional Recognition Schemes, or through EU APL and recognition in conjunction with EU directive 2005/36/EC. Supplemented by top-up CPD, if required, to gain equivalence to being fully qualified.
Status required: QTLS or ATLS, following professional formation
Timescale: within 5 years
Qualifications requirements: PTLLS & Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector combined with a literacy, numeracy or ESOL subject specific qualification through the shorter integrated routes or by the longer additional route (using the separate Routes G and A) If you teach more than one of these subjects you will be required to take the additional Route G for each of the additional subjects taught
Status required: QTLS (following professional formation)
Timescale: within 5 years
Qualifications requirements: Subject specific literacy, numeracy and/or ESOL teaching qualifications through an ‘additional’ qualification route
Status required: QTLS (if not already gained). Professional formation required only in relation to gaining QTLS, i.e. those already with QTLS are exempt from further professional formation
Timescale: within 5 years