Welcome to teaching! Camden Learning will support you to become the very best teacher you can be. If you are new to teaching and to Camden, click the new ECT programme links. If you joined us in 2022, or join us for your second year from another authority or trust, click the Year 2s programme!
Key documents and links
ECPDP Welcome brochure 2023
Learn how you’ll benefit from our programme and how the 12-module course and general schedule is structured. Find out about mentoring support and read some graduate testimonies.
Camden Learning Primary Programme- Year 1 – Autumn term 2023
Camden Learning Primary Programme- Year 2s – Autumn term 2023
Camden Learning Secondary Programme – Year 1 – Autumn term 2023
Camden Learning Secondary Programme – Year 2s – Autumn term 2023
Teachers Standards – summary
Read the Department of Education’s Teachers’ Standards, outlining the expectations that encompass teaching, personal and professional conduct.
ECT FAQs
Whilst the ECF is presented around the Teachers’ Standards for clarity, the ECF is not and should not be used as an assessment framework. The ECF underpins an entitlement to training and should be viewed very positively! ECTs will not be expected to collate evidence. Assessment will continue to be against Teacher Standards only (see link above) .
However engagement with the programme – from attending sessions and self study – will be monitored and concerns shared if there are concerns.
We know that a huge part of succeeding as a teacher, and enjoying the job, is building up a supportive network of peers and of getting to know expert practitioners who can advise and support along the way. If we can create that professional community, a sense of belonging and identity, we know it will be supportive to you. Face to face sessions are so helpful not just for training but for those informal conversations and for networking!
We ask that you notify a member of the Camden team in good time. Please try not to make appointments which clash with your professional development/training time and make sure your colleagues are fully appraised of your ECF commitments.
Excellent mentoring is key to the success of the ECF initiative. This Programme is centred around developing the mentor relationship and includes a focussed learning pathway for mentors.
We will work with in-school mentors to learn new mentoring and coaching techniques, enabling you to strengthen essential skills that you can use throughout your career. Specialist training and support will give each mentor confidence in their knowledge of the Early Career Framework so that they can develop mentoring skills to ensure the early career teachers get the very best from the Programme.
Key documents and links
Camden Learning Mentor Briefing slides
Find out who is involved and read a basic breakdown of the Early Career Framework and the ECPDP. Learn what your role will be and how you’ll get there.
ECPDP Welcome Booklet for Mentors 2023
Read about the programme and your role in context of the bigger picture and learn how to use the resources to progress on your journey as mentor.
Teachers Standards – summary
Read the Department of Education’s Teachers’ Standards, outlining the expectations that encompass teaching, personal and professional conduct.
Mentor FAQs
- The time already exists (ECT timetable reduction and existing mentoring time). It should be about how to repurpose the time you have.
- All their mentor sessions are pre-designed for you so you have less prep time and can focus on their ECT. There are one-page summaries or extended versions of the one-to-one sessions which you can choose.
- The DfE is very clear that the ECF is not an assessment framework and should not be used as such.
- Schools should continue to use their statutory induction assessments for NQTs. New Statutory Guidance was released in Spring 2021.
- This Programme should become the input in terms of professional development support, setting goals and reviewing progress. Each ECT should have a mentor for this Programme, and an induction tutor for their statutory assessment.
- If mentors are also having to operate as induction tutors (for example, in small schools), they should be explicit about when they are observing as part of an assessment or as part of this Programme for support.
- We know mentors will have lots of experience and so they do not need to use everything exactly as provided.
- The sessions have been written in general terms so all phases can use them, and so it is expected that mentors adapt the examples and focus of activities to match their ECT.
- The main point is that mentors cover (that is ensure that ECTs understand the statement) all of the ECF statements that are indicated throughout the activities, but they may choose to use their own appropriate activity to do this.
Key Documents and links
ECPDP Welcome Booklet for Induction Tutors 2023
Read about your role as an induction tutor, how the programme will benefit your school and look at a snapshot of the course and key resources.
Teachers Standards summary
Read the Department of Education’s Teachers’ Standards, outlining the expectations that encompass teaching, personal and professional conduct.
FAQs
A school’s induction tutor can add ECT and mentor details here.
Click here for the DfE registration link and click here to register with the Education Development Trust and the for the ECF Full Induction Programme with Camden Learning.
Once you have signed in, they will see the option to ‘Add early career teachers and mentors’ under the 2023 cohort dashboard. Induction tutors will need to provide names and email contacts for each ECT and each mentor. It is important that you do this as soon as possible, before they start their induction programme.
The DfE will contact early career teachers and mentors soon to ask them to provide any additional information that is required to support their induction.
Schools can visit the online service and confirm if they are not currently expecting any early career teachers to start in September. This will help ensure schools do not receive unnecessary emails regarding the service. If the situation changes and you end up needing to set up an induction training programme, you can request to update this status by emailing continuing-professional-development@digital.education.gov.uk
Your training provider may have already requested some details for your ECTs and mentors, but schools will still have to provide details via the DfE online service. It is important that you do this as soon as possible, before they start their induction programme.
We need to verify that mentors:
- have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- are eligible to complete an induction or act as a mentor
As your programme is being delivered by a training provider (Camden Learning as delivery partner for Education Development Trust) , this also supports the process through which ensures that they receive funding from the Department for Education (DfE).
Only a school’s induction tutor can add the details of the early career teachers and mentors. If they have not yet done so, schools can nominate their induction tutor by visiting https://manage-training-for-early-career-teachers.education.gov.uk/ and following the instructions to generate an email invite.
If an induction tutor works across multiple schools (e.g. as part of a federation or multi-academy trust), then they can be nominated against each of those schools using the same email address. When they sign in to the service, they will see all the schools listed where they have been nominated and can choose which school’s programme to set up and add details for.
Schools can email continuing-professional-development@digital.education.gov.uk to request an induction tutor is set up against multiple schools if they provide:
- Induction tutor name
- Induction tutor email
- URN for each school where the person acts as the induction tutor
No, schools do not use the online service to tell us which provider they are working with. Schools will confirm directly with a training provider that they wish to use them. This can be either a lead provider or one of their delivery partners. Lead providers will inform the DfE which schools they are working with and the department will ask schools to confirm this partnership with the online service being updated accordingly.
The lead providers will upload a list of school URNs to the online service to submit confirmed relationships with schools. The DfE will then contact schools and ask them to confirm this partnership.
Yes. Email invites have been sent to all maintained schools and academies. The invite will have been sent to the email address(es) registered against the school in GIAS (Get Information About Schools). This is usually an office@, admin@ or head@ email address. If they cannot find the original invite, schools can visit https://manage-training-for-early-career-teachers.education.gov.uk/ and regenerate a new email invite to the address they have registered with GIAS or email continuing-professional-development@digital.education.gov.uk for support
Unless a school is opting to design its own ECF-based programmes, the school will need to get set up on the online service and add the details of their early career teachers and mentors ahead of the early career teachers beginning their inductions. For most early career teachers, this will be 6th September 2021
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