Free CPD Guides – Early Career Framework

Supporting Your ECTs Across All Eight Teachers' Standards

Five practical guides for mentors, induction tutors, and CPD leaders. Each one takes a group of standards and sets out what strong early career development looks like in practice.

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What is Inside the Five Guides

Each guide groups the Teachers’ Standards the way early career teachers actually meet them in the classroom, and gives mentors something concrete to work through in a weekly meeting.

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Standards 1 + 7

Setting High Expectations and Managing Behaviour

Establishing a culture where every pupil is expected to succeed, and the routines that hold it in place.

2

Standards 2 + 5

Promoting Good Progress Through Adaptive Teaching

Planning and adapting so that pupils at different starting points all move forward.

3

Standards 3

Experts in the Room: Subject and Curriculum Knowledge

Building the subject expertise that lets an early career teacher explain, sequence, and correct with confidence.

4

Standards 4 + 6

Establishing Understanding Through Questioning and Feedback

Checking what pupils have actually understood, and giving feedback that changes what they do next.

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Standards 8

The Relationships Profession: Broadening Your Responsibilities

Working with colleagues, families, and the wider school beyond the classroom door.

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Working with colleagues, families, and the wider school beyond the classroom door.

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