Mentor
Your role as a mentor
How to register (for those employed by state-funded schools)
How to register (for those employed by independent schools)
How to onboard and gain Steplab access:
Your role as a mentor
As a mentor, you are responsible for coaching your early career teacher(s). This role involves guiding your teacher(s) through the programme with weekly observations and instructional coaching sessions. Your role is vital to help teachers make the best possible start to their careers and apply their learning in your school’s unique context.
We will support you to do this by providing mentor training for all new mentors. It's your responsibility to attend and engage in the training provided to help both you and your early career teacher benefit from the programme. We hope you find the training useful and enjoy the programme.
How to register (for those employed by state-funded schools):
It is the responsibility of your school’s induction tutor to register all ECTs and mentors on the DfE portal. This is the person within your school responsible for overseeing and leading on the Early Career Teachers programme.
Then, the registrations will pull through to our system, once the information has been validated.[CM1] Please check with your induction tutor that they have registered you; if they have, you will receive a welcome email from us with onboarding instructions.
Should your induction tutor still need to register you, you will need to provide them with your:
- First and last names
- Date of birth
- TRN – find your TRN here
- Preferred email address
How to register (for those employed by independent schools):
It is the responsibility of your school’s Induction Tutor to initiate the registration process for ECTs and mentors. This is the person within your school responsible for overseeing and leading on the Early Career Teachers programme.
To do this, they must reach out to a local delivery partner to establish a partnership for the academic year. Unlike at state-funded schools, ECTs and mentors should not be registered on the DfE portal. Instead, your delivery partner should register ECTs and mentors on their system. Then, the registrations will pull through to our system. Please check with your induction tutor that they have initiated the registration process.
How to onboard and gain Steplab access:
Once your induction tutor has registered you, and we have received your registration, you will receive a welcome email from [email protected]. You then need to take these steps to onboard:
1.Create a My Ambition account, ensuring your name and email address match those in the welcome email from us.
- Please search for your school using its URN, to ensure you select the correct one
- Please select ‘Early Career Teacher programme’ for the question ‘Why are you registering with My Ambition today?’
- You may already have a My Ambition account, in which case you do not need to create a new one, but please check whether your account name and email address match those in the welcome email from us.
- If your existing account details do not match those in the welcome email, please contact us, and we will change them for you.
2.Complete your Steplab access form, under the Onboarding and EDI tab.
- Please note your ECTs and mentors will have their own Steplab access form to complete
3.Once you have completed your Steplab access form, you will gain access to Steplab within 24 hours. Please take some time to explore Steplab!
Steplab is the online learning platform where you will be able to access programme materials and document your ECT’s progress. You can only access Steplab via your My Ambition account.
If you are unable to access Steplab after completing the steps above, and after waiting 24 hours following submission of the Steplab access form, please get in touch with us:
- By email at [email protected]
- By phone on 020 3846 5828
- Registration queries: press 1,1
- Onboarding queries: press 2,1