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Developing People

Early Career Teacher Programme Offer

Working with Teach First, we offer a flexible, evidence-led programme that delivers practical support and long-term impact — for teachers and schools alike.

For your school and mentors

  • Fully funded and rated Outstanding by Ofsted in all areas
  • Subject-specific training in year two, covering 25+ phases and subjects
  • A one-year comprehensive training and support programme for mentors
  • School-led approach: created by our in-house experts working with school trusts

For early career teachers

  • A structured two-year journey promoting confidence, subject expertise and retention
  • Training tailored to subject and phase across 25+ areas, including SEND
  • Optional modules in SEND and leadership development
  • Flexible delivery: online and face-to-face learning, with weekly mentor support
  • Diagnostic tool and personalised pathways to meet each teacher's needs
  • Created to support workload and wellbeing with a blended learning mode

The dates, times and venues for all of our training sessions during the 26/27 academic year for mentors, ECT1s and ECT2s can be downloaded from the calendar at the bottom of this page.

How to sign up

Register all ECTs and mentors through the DfE service, selecting Teach First as your lead provider and Community Academies Trust as your Delivery Partner