Key Voices

This week we talk to Gareth Conyard, Deputy Director of the Developing Teachers and Leaders Division of the Department for Education, and Jacqueline Gilbert, Deputy Head at Park View Community School about the Early Career Framework (ECF). We hear from Jacqueline about her experiences as lead mentor for a group of Early Career Teachers (ECTs) as part of the early roll-out.  We learn more about why the ECF is being introduced and how it works in practice for schools.    We talk about:  The rationale for the introduction of the ECF and how it will work  How it is different from previous NQT induction  Why Jacqueline and her school got involved in the early roll-out of the framework  How Jacqueline found being a mentor and her thoughts about her ECTs’ experience of the programme  How Jacqueline found juggling being a mentor alongside class commitments and the positive impact working with the ECTs  had on her own practice  The fact that the ECF provides a very supportive and consistent experience which is