Long-time Tappsters will know that we’ve been keeping an eye on the implementation of the Early Career Framework (ECF) since it launched in September 2021.
We’ve published three in-depth reports…
The first, Early Career Teachers: The Story So Far, highlighted dissatisfaction with materials and training amongst Early Career Teachers (ECTs) and their mentors, along with complaints about additional workload. On the plus-side we found that ECTs really like working with their in-school mentors.
For the second report, we worked with the Gatsby Foundation to produce Where Next for the Early Career Framework? This report emphasised the overlap between initial teacher training (ITT) and the ECF, as well as a lack of subject / phase specific content. Despite this, teachers and leaders remained supportive of the Framework in general.
Our third report (again with the Gatsby Foundation) looked over the The First 18 Months of the Framework’s implementation. It identified timetabling issues, ongoing concerns about the lack of subject / phase specific content and presented findings demonstrating that in particular, external elements of the Framework provision were not popular.
