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ECT Mentors are entitled to one year of their own professional development alongside that of the ECT teacher.
ECT Mentors benefit from high-quality training opportunities that strengthen their own coaching and leadership skills, giving them experience of expert teacher education.
This gives them the knowledge and understanding on how to best support teachers in their first two years of their career and get the most from their role as an ECT mentor.
New mentors
If you are a new mentor, in total you will complete 18 hours of training in Year 1. This time is divided between orientation, events and online clinics so you can tailor your learning to what you need to know.
Over one year, Mentors will have access to:
- Two conferences
- One clinic (facilitated session)
- One hour coaching on coaching session
- Over 40 hours of online sessions
Existing mentors
Existing mentors who have already completed their training only need to provide one-to-one coaching to their mentees.
Tailored to the needs of your trainees
Following the introduction of the new ITTECF, we’ve improved our programme to include more specialist content for help pupils with oracy, early cognitive development and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Adaptable to different settings
ECTs and mentors can now access a wider range of training materials including specific examples for different subjects, phases and settings, particularly primary and early years pupils, providing them with a tailored, personal training pathway.
Retain your teachers
By training your ECT teachers with Ambition, you’re providing them with professional development designed for new teachers and investing in their future. The DfE found that four in five early career teachers who started an ECF based induction were retained in state schools after two years.
Gain a teacher educator
As part of our ECT programme, your mentors have access to a wide range of training resources to help them better support your ECTs. This includes a range of teacher educator materials that can be applied to benefit other departments across your school as well as your early career teachers.
Our ECT approach
By choosing our ECT programme, you’re benefiting from high quality, structured support with training based on the ‘science of learning’ and instructional coaching frameworks, as well as being able to access DfE funding.
Benefits for your early career teachers and mentors
Develop their practice
Our ECT programme helps new teachers build confidence by developing their practice, knowledge and effective working habits for a fulling career in teaching.
Flexible learning
No two school weeks are the same. That’s why we’ve designed our programme with flexibility in mind through a blend of synchronous and asynchronous content, so that new teachers can that fit their training alongside the working life of a teacher.
Boost teaching wellbeing
Through our pastoral mentoring, ECTs can benefit from wellbeing and workload support to help them grow into school-life.
New diagnostic tools
ECT mentors have access to our latest diagnostic tools to assess what your early career teachers already know from teacher training, so that they can adapt training to better meet the needs of the ECT.
Personalised mentor training
As part of our ECT programme, mentors can personalise their own development. This includes access to over 40 hours of online sessions, providing them with the opportunity to make the programme their own and learn through a truly tailored training experience.
Connect with peers
ECTs and mentors get the opportunity to share their learning with fellow peers from other settings as well sharing strategies to improve their practice in their school.