Our aims

The philosophy of The Prince’s Teaching Institute is rooted in its commitment to improving children’s education in state schools.  It believes that all pupils, irrespective of background or ability, are entitled to a subject-based curriculum, taught by inspirational and knowledgeable teachers.  It pursues these aims by:

• Promoting the idea that subject knowledge, subject rigour and the enthusiasm for communicating them are essential requirements for effective teaching to children of all backgrounds and ability
  
• Promoting and providing subject-based professional development for teachers
• Creating an inspirational forum for teachers, enabling them to step away from the classroom and rediscover their love of subject
• Encouraging and inspiring teachers, by demonstrating good use of academic rigour and challenge in the classroom
• Creating stronger links between academic departments in schools, and between schools and universities
• Promoting and enabling a more constructive dialogue between teachers and government educational agencies
• Exercising a beneficial influence on the development of policy in the areas of curriculum development, assessment and training

The Institute brings together teachers and leading academics with a view to encouraging rigorous and challenging subject teaching in all schools for children of all abilities. It demonstrates how children can be inspired, and consequently achieve higher standards, by teaching that goes beyond the constraints of exam syllabuses and by rich subject provision that incorporates extra-curricular activities and links outside school. It also provides an additional pathway of communication between teachers and Higher Education and Government Agencies.