This 20-page free pdf download offers a range of practical advice to support trainee teachers and those teachers in the first years of their careers – especially those colleagues starting life as an ECT in September.
We offer advice specific to the Early Career Framework. We offer crucial wellbeing and workload advice to help you develop healthy habits to sustain you throughout your careers. We speak to current ECTs to get their tips and hacks for your first year at the chalkface.
We also offer general teaching tips, including advice for effective inclusion, teaching students who use English as an additional language, supporting students with SEND as well as top tips for how to be an effective form tutor.
ECTs: Tips, ideas and advice – click here to download
Articles include:
- Dealing with the stresses of teaching (and behaviour)
- Ten ideas to help ECTs prioritise their mental health and wellbeing
- Navigate the ECF in 10 steps: A guide for new teachers
- Twelve things I’ve learned from my first ECT year
- Career pathways: Where do you want to go?
- Teaching tips: Tackling mental truancy
- Inclusion in your classroom: Supporting SEND students
- Seven tips for creating an inclusive classroom
- English as an additional language: Five teaching tips
- Retrieval practice: A crash course for ECTs
- How to be a good form tutor
This supplement published in June 2023 and has been produced with kind support from the National Education Union. Visit https://neu.org.uk/join