First Year ECT Events

First Year ECT
Events and Clinics

Our in-person and online events are essential to your success on the programme. Facilitated by our experienced team, you will actively take part in learning that will support your progress across your induction.

What are clinics?
Clinics aim to provide you with the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained from the ECT programme to a typical teaching problem (a problem faced by all teachers regardless of context or experience). This is to support you to consider what good practice is likely to look like, and how you might address this typical problem in your own context.

As part of the clinic, you are introduced to underlying features (components that can be applied across all subjects, phases or settings, and are a guide for what good practice is likely to look like) and you will see these exemplified across a range of scenarios. This will give you the opportunity to analyse these underlying features of good practice across contexts, and then begin to apply these underlying features to your own practice too.

Launch Conference - Monday 16th September

Monday 16th September
9am - 4pm
The Innovation Centre (Hub 1),
Queens Meadow Business Park,
Hartlepool,
TS25 5TG

ECT Conference 1 provides you with essential knowledge about the programme so that you can start the first year feeling confident about how the programme will support you and what you need to do to get the most out of the programme.

The conference allows to build on your knowledge of the programme from the online orientation so that you have a detailed understanding of the programme and how it links to the Early Career Framework. This includes understanding how the programme has been designed to have the maximum possible impact on your teaching practice and, ultimately, on your pupils.

This conference will support you to develop your knowledge around how people learn and apply this understanding to how to effectively plan lessons. Within the session you will have an opportunity to practise putting this knowledge into practice so, to support you to complete the practice tasks, it’s advised that you bring an upcoming lesson plan or unit of work to support your thinking.

Conferences also provide a valuable opportunity to meet other early career teachers and start to build a network of support for the coming two years and beyond.

Clinic 1 - Monday 14th October

Monday 14th October
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Online Session - Click here to join

Why is this session important?
Setting up and maintaining high expectations as a way to prevent and respond to low-level disruption is a typical problem faced by many teachers. In this clinic you will build on your understanding of low-level disruption by exploring several scenarios across a range of contexts and analysing the underlying features of how to prevent and respond to low-level disruption. This clinic will build further from self-study module B5.

Prior to this session you may wish to complete the optional pre-reading, which can be found at the start of the clinic workbook. This reading details some of the theory underpinning the content of the clinic and the wider topic of behaviour.

Clinic 2 - Monday 10th February

Monday 10th February
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Online Session - Click here to join

Why is this session important?
Clinic 2 focuses on encouraging all pupils to think hard during discussions. Supporting all pupils to think hard about critical content is crucial in ensuring that they gain the knowledge and skills they need to access the curriculum. However, this can be particularly challenging during paired, group and whole-class discussions.

This clinic will therefore help you to answer the question ‘how can teachers support all pupils to think hard during paired, group and whole class discussions?’. In the clinic, you will read and discuss several scenarios, set in a range of contexts, analysing the ways in which the underlying features support all pupils to think hard.

Conference 2 - Tuesday 18th March

Tuesday 18th March
9:00am - 4:00pm
Online Session - Click here to join

Being able to understand and respond to your pupils’ needs is essential to being an effective teacher. In this session we consider how we can understand what pupils have learned, what they may still be struggling to understand and how we can support them to improve. In this conference you will learn more about what adaptive teaching is and consider the principles and features of adaptive teaching, including some suggested tools to support pupils learning and adapt teaching where necessary. There are many opportunities for tasks and discussions to bring each principle into action.

It is advised that you bring an upcoming lesson or unit plan in order to support you thinking in completing the tasks in the session.

Conferences also provide a valuable opportunity to meet other early career teachers and continue to build a network of support over the course of the programme.

Clinic 3 - Monday 30th June

Monday 30th June
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Online Session - Click here to join

Why is this session important?
Clinic 3 focuses on feedback. It builds from the thinking you have done in conference 2 on adaptive teaching to respond to what pupils know and can do. Effective feedback is a vital part of the process as it supports pupils to correct errors and misconceptions, and also encourages progress in the long-term. However, feedback can sometimes feel inefficient or as though it isn’t translating into significant impact on pupil learning.

This clinic will therefore help you to answer the question ‘How can teachers give timely and effective feedback that supports pupil progress and is considerate of workload?’. To do so, you will explore several scenarios set across a range of contexts that use a range of feedback methods. You will analyse the underlying features of effective feedback in each of these scenarios to consider the unifying features that you can apply to your own practice.

Prior to this session you may wish to complete the optional pre-reading, which can be found at the start of the clinic workbook. This reading details some of the theory underpinning the content of the clinic.