Supporting Early Career Teachers to thrive in their first year – a guide for secondary schools

The research team behind an ESRC-funded project to support trainee and Early Career Teachers who have trained during the pandemic, invite you to an event where they will share A Guide for Secondary Schools, co-authored by the members of the research team. This event is open to all, but will have particular relevance for teacher educators, school mentors, Early Career Teachers and those currently training to become teachers.

Summary

This research project assesses the impact of the substantial changes caused by Covid-19 to Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and makes recommendations to mitigate the adverse effects, maintain and extend the positive developments to practice and provide ECTs with ongoing support. The focus is on teacher quality, classroom readiness and the retention of secondary school Early Career Teachers, who completed their ITE programmes during 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. The global pandemic comes at a time when, in the UK, the retention of secondary school teachers continues to be an area of concern for policy makers, school leaders and ITE providers, with persistent shortages in subjects including chemistry, computing, mathematics, modern foreign languages and physics. Despite the recent increase in applications to ITE, research suggests that teacher supply gaps are unlikely to close.

This guide for schools shares early findings from the first phase of research; subsequent recommendations will be shared in 2022.

The online event will be hosted by the project co-leads Dr Elizabeth Rushton and Dr Simon Gibbons and during the event you will have the opportunity to share your perspectives and find out more about this research.

Registration

Please register in advance for this event here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.