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 - Thursday 18th September 2025
ECT Year 1 Launch Conference
Thursday 18th September, 2025
9am - 4pm
The Innovation Centre (Hub 1),
Queens Meadow Business Park,
Hartlepool,
TS25 5TG
Session aims
To understand:
> The importance of, and features of, high-quality professional development
> The principles, structure and design of the Early Career Training Programme
> How the Early Career Training programme will support you to develop your expertise
> Ways you can manage your wellbeing and workload
> The underlying features that support high-quality planning
Clinic 1 - Thursday 4th December 2025
Thursday 4th December, 2025
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Clinic 2 - Thursday 19th February 2026
Thursday 19th February, 2026
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Conference 2 - Thursday 19th March 2026
Thursday 19th March, 2026
9am - 4pm
The Innovation Centre (Hub 1),
Queens Meadow Business Park,
Hartlepool,
TS25 5TG
Clinic 3 - Monday 2nd July 2026
Thursday 2nd July, 2026
3:30pm – 5:00pm