The Ofsted report released today rates the quality of the UCL-led Early Career Framework (ECF) programme’s professional development and training as outstanding. It also rates the programme’s leadership and management on the same level.
In 2021 the DfE appointed IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, as a lead provider of the ECF. As one of six lead providers, IOE works with 21 teaching school hubs and other delivery partners across England to deliver the ECF programmes.
Now in its second year of delivery, IOE is helping over 11,200 early career teachers to develop evidence-informed teaching practice that leads to high-quality pupil learning through the ECF. These teachers are supported by nearly 10,000 mentors who are participating in their own development programme alongside their mentees.
Key findings drawn from the experiences of early career teachers (ECTs), mentors and induction tutors involved in the first year of the national roll-out of the two-year ECF-based induction programme reveal that: “At UCL IOE, leaders have designed an astute programme that enables ECTs to engage deeply with the knowledge and skills that sit behind the ECF. The programme has been co-designed through meaningful collaboration with delivery partners, who adjust the programme to fit the context in which ECTs work and the subjects and phases they teach.”
