What’s a SCITT? Teaching acronyms you should know but were too afraid to ask
Published: Fri 17 January 2025Do you know your WAGOLL from your INSET? Find yourself wondering what it means to be NEET? Were you once certain ALPS are mountains? The world of teaching is full of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms – the difference between these we will save for next lesson. Here’s a brief rundown of capital letters you need to know to get ahead in the education capital, including a SCITT.
⭐ WAGOLL – quite literally for this article, ‘What A Good One Looks Like’
👀 SLANT – an expectation or instruction for students to ‘Sit up, Listen, Ask questions, Nod, and Track the speaker’
⛰️ ALPS – not a mountain range in Europe on this occasion, but ‘Advanced Level Performance System’
📅 INSET – we know what it is and don’t mind the odd one to end an autumn term, but did you know it stands for ‘In Service Education and Training?’
And finally… SCITT
If you’re considering a career in teaching, how would you know to search for SCITT? Short for the wonderfully catchy, ‘School-Centred Initial Teacher Training’, a SCITT is a one-year teacher training route to QTS and a PGCE (there’s two more) with first hand teaching experience in a local school.
City of London Academies, in partnership with Teach First, offers a SCITT and are recruiting now for a September start.