Overview
Each term ECTs will work across modules that cover behaviour, instruction, curriculum and assessment and professional practice. They will also develop understanding of how pupils learn.
The key learning from the four strands is outlined below:
What they'll learn
Behaviour
- Using routines to support behaviour management.
- Creating a positive learning environment.
- Support with overcoming low-level disruption.
- Support with creating high expectations in the classroom.
Instruction
- Supporting pupils through instruction-based strategies such as questioning, scaffolding and modelling.
- The importance that prior knowledge plays learning.
- How to adapt classroom practice to meet the needs of all pupils.
- How to use feedback effectively.
Curriculum and Assessment
- Creating good planning habits to support learning goals.
- Strategies for examining and addressing the gaps and misconceptions pupils may have.
- Considering how literacy can be developed across all subjects.
Professional Practice
How they'll learn
- 3 full-day conferences (focused on deepening their understanding of how pupils learn, the principles of adaptive teaching, and effective implementation).
- 6 one-hour virtual clinics to support early career teachers to address a typical teaching problem faced by most teachers, based on their study materials and key areas from the Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF).
- Regular modules of online learning. Self-study modules help early career teachers engage with the latest research and ideas for practical classroom implementation in a manageable and accessible way.
- Regular instructional coaching sessions designed to support early career teachers to apply insights from the study materials into their classroom practice. Mentors will provide teachers with a specific, bite-sized step to practice each week that responds to their own classroom context and practice.