This week we talk to Gareth Conyard, Deputy Director of the Developing Teachers and Leaders Division of the Department for Education, and Jacqueline Gilbert, Deputy Head at Park View Community School about the Early Career Framework (ECF). We hear from Jacqueline about her experiences as lead mentor for a group of Early Career Teachers (ECTs) as part of the early roll-out. We learn more about why the ECF is being introduced and how it works in practice for schools.
We talk about:
- The rationale for the introduction of the ECF and how it will work
- How it is different from previous NQT induction
- Why Jacqueline and her school got involved in the early roll-out of the framework
- How Jacqueline found being a mentor and her thoughts about her ECTs’ experience of the programme
- How Jacqueline found juggling being a mentor alongside class commitments and the positive impact working with the ECTs had on her own practice
- The fact that the ECF provides a very supportive and consistent experience which is proving helpful for new teachers whose ITT was disrupted by Covid
- While the introduction might prove to be an extra challenge for already stretched schools initially it could potentially really support the catch-up effort
You can sign up for a webinar about the ECF here
You can also find further information here
