TEALS for schools
The mission of TEALS is to increase access to high quality computing education for students who are underserved or underrepresented in computing.
To help with this mission we are looking for schools in England to join the 2024-25 cohort.
Participating schools will need to:
Already offer computing at KS3, offer computer science GCSE or have ambition to
Serve an area of priority need (higher FSM) and/or students underrepresented in computing
Be committed to enriching and enhancing their computing curriculum
Have at least one computing teacher committed to developing their subject knowledge
Aspire to increase the number of students studying computing and improving attainment
Necessary requirements for successful operation of the programme
Whilst we want to keep financial and resource commitments as minimal as possible for schools, there are some requirements which are necessary for successful operation of the programme:
- Senior leadership support for the computing department to engage in TEALS
- Computing teacher time to participate in training, planning with volunteers, providing feedback and data to support evaluation
- Computing team time for planning and CPD, to maximise use of volunteers
- Identify appropriate lessons where volunteer engagement can take place through analysis of existing timetables and volunteer availability
- Ensure volunteers are given an induction to your school, your department and provide access to schemes of work to enable volunteers to prepare and maximise their impact
- Make arrangements to accommodate volunteers at your school on a regular basis
- Capture TEALS classes in action and share best practice with the wider TEALS community.
The application process
- Watch video
- Complete Application
- Application review by BCS
- Assessment ( this will be for both the Teacher and the Senior Lead for shortlisted schools)
- Commitment document as per the video
- Training
- Volunteer email address shared with the school for you to contact the volunteer directly.
- Access to the TEALS school community.
- The school arranges an induction for the volunteer.
- Baseline evaluation will be sent out for completion.
- Volunteers in computer science lesson."
If you think TEALS could help fast-track your vision for computing, do consider applying. Spaces are limited, and we’re eager to onboard schools to begin the search for volunteers as soon as possible.
