Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers – serie

This go-to manual for the Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF) offers an accessible, supportive set of principles for new teachers. It breaks down the statements of the ITTECF and the evidence base behind them to present a set of core beliefs and ideas about what works in teaching. The ITTECF takes the Teacher Standards and breaks them into Learn That and Learn How To statements to guide the development and education of pre-service and early-career teachers over the three years of initial training and induction into the profession. The framework comprises of statements drawn from the best-available evidence and research within education. This book summarizes the key evidence behind each statement in accessible language, drawing on the main findings, and also suggests practical strategies for the application of the theory into classroom and school-based practice.Through summaries, reflective activities, case studies, and practical strategies, this book is an essential guide for trainee and early career teachers and will support them as they develop and hone their practice.

As Ofsted introduces a new framework with higher expectations regarding subject knowledge across the primary curriculum, there has never been a more important time for trainees to secure their subject knowledge and improve confidence. This book aims to help early career teachers in teaching primary foundation subjects.This is another text for the Essential Guides for Early Career teachers series and it provides ECT's and their mentors with the right tools for teaching primary foundation subjects, improving their subject knowledge and building understanding. It ensures that relevant theory and research are woven together with real classroom experience. It links to key readings, resources and online sources which will allow trainees to continue their own learning and encourage independent study through the use of reflective exercises and practical tasks to ensure the delivery of the best possible teaching.A text like this is needed more than ever as the Ofsted framework for ITT is explicit in highlighting subject knowledge as being a key component to successful teaching. This book, therefore, covers the kind of topics that ECT's might at first struggle with from art and design, to computing and IT to languages like French and German. This book breaks down each subject and points trainees in the direction of resources, support and best practice.