Early Career Teacher

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

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. 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 be yet 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 (Please note: if your work email address is not yet live, you may wish to give your personal email address so you do not miss initial onboarding communications)

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 state-funded schools, ECTs and mentors should not be registered on the DfE portal. Instead, your delivery partner should register ECTs and mentors. 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’ for the question ‘Why are you registering with My Ambition today?’

2.Complete your Steplab access form, under the Onboarding and EDI tab.

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 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