Early Career Professional Development Programme

• ECTs need time and space to reflect on and challenge their own practice. This Programme is centred around developing the mentor relationship, and includes a carefully constructed programme of webinars, face-to-face training, and self-study activities which support this.
• Each of these activities will provide opportunities to learn the theory, put the theory into practice, and reflect on personal and professional development with the support of their mentor.

A constructive professional relationship, with optimal levels of support and challenge, between an ECT and their mentor, is critical to driving improvements in classroom practice.

We work with in-school mentors, helping them learn new mentoring and coaching techniques, to strengthen essential skills, which they can put into practice throughout their careers.

Specialist training and support, ensures each mentor is confident in their knowledge of the ECF, enabling the ECTs who they work with, to get the very best from the Programme.

Mentors put forward by schools, benefit from a comprehensive programme of development. Regional training sessions are led by expert facilitators.

Download the Programme Sequence for a breakdown of what to expect

1. Check our list of Delivery Partners to ensure we are delivering the Programme in your area.
2. The Induction Tutor or main school contact needs to register with Education Development Trust. You only need to know the number of ECTs and mentors at this point.
3. Register the details of your ECTs and mentors on the Department for Education's digital portal. You will need details of each individual for this part of the application.

Department for Education (DfE) will be in touch with an invitation to enter new ECT and mentor details for 2023-2024 cohort on the DfE's digital portal. You will need details of each individual for this part of the application.

Please note, there is no need to register with Education Development Trust again, as we have your school details from the previous academic year. 

Change in Induction Tutor

If there is a change in Induction Tutor or main school contact, please use the DfE's digital portal to update DfE with changes / withdrawals to the Induction Tutor who is registered with DfE. 

Education Development Trust will then receive updated Induction Tutor information directly from DfE and we will update our records. 

If you have participants joining your school, who started the Early Career Professional Development Programme in academic year 2022-2023, please use this form to register.  You do not need to register individual participants at this point, the DfE will contact you to collect participant information.