Teaching and Parenting - Realistic Expectations

Welcome to the exciting world of teaching!

You are at the very beginning of your journey as an educator and are ready to start your ITTE programme with your provider in September 2025.

But what will training to teach be like when you've also got your own children at home to take care of?

Join The MTPT Project - the UK's charity for parent educators - for an online workshops to prepare you for the road ahead. With nine years experience supporting with teachers, leaders, trainees and support staff as they become parents, we can prepare you for the ups and downs of your training year and help you design a path way that gives you all the family-friendly benefits of teaching that you hope for.

Optional 1:1 Coaching - July - November 2025 / January - March 2026

You can follow up the workshops with an optional 60 minute 1:1 coaching session to focus on your personal needs and goals. Coaching sessions can be booked in any time between July and November 2025 or January - March 2026. Further details will be shared when you book your ticket.

Further Support

The MTPT Project hosts regional WhatsApp groups and local meet ups of parent-educators. You can sign up to our fortnightly bulletin to receive updates of what's going on in our wider community.

Your Facilitator

Emma Sheppard is the Founder of The MTPT Project. With twelve years' experience of teaching and leading in challenging contexts, working both full and part-time as a middle leader and mother to two young children, she knows the emotional, logistical and physical joys of parenting and teaching.

Emma was a secondary English mentor and Professional Co-ordinating mentor for 7 years, and has experience supporting trainees on SCITT, School Direct, Teach First and conversion programmes. She has been delivering trainee CPD with school and national providers since 2015.

After founding The MTPT Project in 2016, Emma qualified as a coach in 2022, and has been delivering 1:1 and group coaching since 2017. She creates a calm, open space where participants feel confident to share and move forwards with their goals in a safe space where challenge is gentle but insightful, and the focus is on making things better.

Mosaic, by Penrose

Mosaic are an ed tech provider who work with ITTE providers to support trainee evidence and assessment.