School-led material for the Early Career Teachers (ECT) programme
These resources and documents are for use only if you are designing your own ECT programme for your school or trust.
Please go to our dedicated ECT Programmes site if you are enrolled with the fully-funded UCL programme with one of our local delivery partners.
To learn more about UCL’s fully-funded ECT Programme visit our UCL ECTP website.
For more details about the Early Career Teacher Entitlement visit the Department for Education's site.
If you have any questions about the material posted here, please send an email to ecf.nro@ucl.ac.uk
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- ECT: Y1 School-led (77)
- . |_ ECT Welcome Conference (1)
- . |_ Mentor Welcome Conference (1)
- . |_ Module 1: Fulfilling professional responsibilities (9)
- . . |_ Module 1: Meetings (2)
- . . |_ Module 1, Topic 1: Workload and Wellbeing (1)
- . . |_ Module 1, Topic 2: Understanding teachers as role models (2)
- . . |_ Module 1, Topic 3: Engaging with parents, carers and families (1)
- . . |_ Module 1, Topic 4: Working effectively with colleagues (1)
- . . |_ Module 1, Topic 5: Establishing the learning environment (2)
- . |_ Module 2: Enabling pupil learning (11)
- . . |_ Module 2: Meetings (2)
- . . |_ Module 2, Topic 1: Understanding and managing behaviour (2)
- . . |_ Module 2, Topic 2: Understanding pupils as learners (2)
- . . |_ Module 2, Topic 3: Meeting individual needs and balancing workload (2)
- . . |_ Module 2, Topic 4: Literacy and learning (2)
- . . |_ Module 2, Topic 5: Supporting the most vulnerable pupils (1)
- . |_ Module 3: Engaging pupils in learning (9)
- . . |_ Module 3: Meetings (2)
- . . |_ Module 3, Topic 1: Prior knowledge, memory, and misconceptions (2)
- . . |_ Module 3, Topic 2: Consolidation of learning (2)
- . . |_ Module 3, Topic 3: Curriculum and subject knowledge (2)
- . . |_ Module 3, Topic 4: Subject knowledge and key concepts (1)
- . |_ Module 4: Developing quality pedagogy (10)
- . . |_ Module 4: Meetings (2)
- . . |_ Module 4, Topic 1: Effective modelling (2)
- . . |_ Module 4, Topic 2: Exposition and questioning (2)
- . . |_ Module 4, Topic 3: Modelling metacognitive strategies (2)
- . . |_ Module 4, Topic 4: Developing high-quality classroom talk (2)
- . |_ Module 5: Meeting pupils' needs (10)
- . . |_ Module 5: Meetings (2)
- . . |_ Module 5, Topic 1: Increasing pupil success through adaptive teaching (2)
- . . |_ Module 5, Topic 2: Using groupings to support specific needs (2)
- . . |_ Module 5, Topic 3: Making learning accessible through targeted support (2)
- . . |_ Module 5, Topic 4: Manageable marking and feedback (2)
- . |_ Module 6: Making productive use of assessment (12)
- . . |_ Module 6: Meetings (2)
- . . |_ Module 6, Topic 1: Manageable marking and feedback (2)
- . . |_ Module 6, Topic 2: Assessment practice in classrooms (2)
- . . |_ Module 6, Topic 3: Giving high-quality feedback (2)
- . . |_ Module 6, Topic 4: Putting effective marking and feedback into practice (1)
- . . |_ Module 6, Topic 5: Reflection and research in professional development / Working with Tas (2)
- . . |_ Module 6, Topic 6: Revisiting professional development (1)
- . |_ Facilitated learning and Local learning communities (13)
- . . |_ Module 1 Facilitated learning and Local learning communities (2)
- . . |_ Module 2 Facilitated learning and Local learning communities (2)
- . . |_ Module 3 Facilitated learning and Local learning communities (2)
- . . |_ Module 4 Facilitated learning and Local learning communities (2)
- . . |_ Module 5 Facilitated learning and Local learning communities (3)
- . . |_ Module 6 Facilitated learning and Local learning communities (2)
ECT Y2: School-led
- ECT: Y2 School-led (32)
- . |_ Year 2 Conference (1)
- . |_ Year 2 Practitioner Inquiry Handbook (1)
- . |_ Year 2 School visit guidance (1)
- . |_ Module 7 Inquiry into enabling pupil learning (4)
- . . |_ Module 7, Topic 1: High expectations and managing behaviour: collecting the evidence (1)
- . . |_ Module 7, Topic 2: High expectations and managing behaviour: understanding the evidence (1)
- . . |_ Module 7, Module review meeting (1)
- . |_ Module 8 Inquiry into engaging pupils in learning (5)
- . . |_ Module 8, Topic 1: Pupil progress and subject knowledge: confirming an inquiry question (1)
- . . |_ Module 8, Topic 2: Pupil progress and subject knowledge: collecting the evidence (1)
- . . |_ Module 8, Topic 3: Pupil progress and subject knowledge: understanding the evidence (1)
- . . |_ Module 8, Module review meeting (1)
- . |_ Module 9a Inquiry into developing quality pedagogy and making productive use of assessment (4)
- . . |_ Module 9a, Topic 1: What is the evidence telling us about how the ECT develops quality pedagogy and makes productive use of assessment? (1)
- . . |_ Module 9a, Topic 2: From the evidence of the ECT’s normal practice, what might be a useful alteration to their teaching? (1)
- . . |_ Module 9a, Topic 3: Structured reflection upon the ECT’s inquiry so far (1)
- . |_ Module 9b Inquiry into developing quality pedagogy and making productive use of assessment (4)
- . . |_ Module 9b, Topic 1: Observation and feedback to improve the quality of pedagogy and the productive use of assessment (1)
- . . |_ Module 9b, Topic 2: What is evidence telling us about the effects upon their pupils of the ECT’s practice in relation to Standards 4, 5 and 6? (1)
- . . |_ Module 9b, Topic 3: Sharing claims. Using the Module Learning Audit to plan future development (1)
- . . |_ Module 9b. Topic 4: Inquiry progress: checking for negative consequences (1)
- . |_ Module 9c Inquiry into developing quality pedagogy and making productive use of assessment (4)
- . . |_ Module 9c, Topic 1: Inquiry progress: Considering the fuller range of emergent evidence (1)
- . . |_ Module 9c, Topic 2: The impacts upon the ECT of their inquiry (independent study) (1)
- . . |_ Module 9c, Topic 3: The impacts upon the ECT of their inquiry (mentor meeting) (1)
- . . |_ Module 9c, Topic 4: Inquiry Presentation (1)
- . |_ Module 10: Fulfilling professional responsibilities (4)
- . . |_ Module 10, Topic 1: Managing professional development (1)
- . . |_ Module 10, Topic 2: Managing effective working relationships (1)
- . . |_ Module 10, Topic 3: Managing workload and wellbeing (1)
- . . |_ Module 10, Topic 4: Planning for year 3 (1)
- . |_ Year 2 Facilitated learning (4)
- . . |_ Module 7: Developing and Refining an inquiry focus (1)
- . . |_ Module 9a: Conducting an extended evaluative inquiry (1)
- . . |_ Module 9b: Understanding our data (1)
- . . |_ Module 9c: Mobilise new knowledge, sharing findings with colleagues. (1)
- . . |_ Module 10: School Visit 1 and School Visit 2 (0)
Mentor programme
- ECT: Mentor-programme (10)
- . |_ Induction (2)
- . . |_ Mentor Welcome Conference (1)
- . . |_ Fundamentals of Mentoring (1)
- . |_ Independent Study (6)
- . . |_ Theme 1: Module 1 and 10 (1)
- . . |_ Theme 2: Module 2 and 7 (1)
- . . |_ Theme 3: Module 3 and 8 (1)
- . . |_ Theme 4: Module 4 and 9 (1)
- . . |_ Theme 5: Module 5 and 9 (1)
- . . |_ Theme 6: Module 6 and 6 (1)
- . |_ Local Learning Community (2)
- . . |_ Leading early year career teacher development (1)
- . . |_ Leading practitioner inquiry (1)

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