Early Career Teacher
How to register (for those employed by schools eligible for funding)
How to register (for those employed by schools not eligible for funding)
How to onboard and gain Steplab access
How to register (for those employed by schools eligible for funding):
Firstly, if unsure of your school’s funding eligibility, please see our FAQ - ‘How to know if my school is eligible for funding?’.
It is the responsibility of your school’s induction tutor to register all ECTs and mentors on the DfE’s manage training for early career teachers service. This is the person within your school responsible for overseeing and leading on the Early Career Training programme.
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 ([email protected]) with onboarding instructions.
If you cannot see your welcome email, please ensure that you check your junk folder. If you are using a school email address and trying to access the emails at work, we advise that you ask your IT team to add our email addresses to their safe senders list; @salesforce.com // @ambition.org.uk // @steplab.co // @steplab.co.uk.
Should your induction tutor still need to register you, they will need the following details from you:
- 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, we recommend using your personal email address, so you do not miss our onboarding communications)
How to register (for those employed by schools not eligible for funding):
Firstly, if unsure of your school’s funding eligibility, please see our FAQ - ‘How to know if my school is eligible for funding?’.
It is the responsibility of your school’s induction tutor to register all ECTs and mentors. This is the person within your school responsible for overseeing and leading on the Early Career Training programme.
To do this, they must reach out to a local delivery partner to establish a partnership for the academic year. At schools that are not eligible for DfE funding, ECTs and mentors should not be registered with the DfE. 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 MyECT account, ensuring your name and email address exactly match those in the welcome email from us.
- Please search for your school using its URN, to ensure you select the correct one.
2.Complete your Steplab access form, under the ‘Onboarding & 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 MyECT account, by clicking on the profile icon in the top-right hand corner of the homepage and selecting ‘Steplab’ in the drop-down menu.
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