On 15 November 2022, the Department for Education published a response to the consultation on appropriate body reform and induction assessment, held from 26 May to 21 July 2022. We appreciate that these changes will impact schools and to support the transition, the DfE has prepared an information pack.
Click here to access the AB Reforms DfE briefing pack for schools.
Thursday 2nd March, 4-5pm, Zoom Webinar
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Schools are required to register their Early Career Teachers with an Appropriate Body to ensure they complete their inductions. The AB has two main roles:
1) Monitoring of support: ensuring that ECTs are receiving their statutory entitlements and fidelity checks, ensuring schools are supported to provide ECTs with an ECF-based induction.
2) Monitoring of assessment – make the final decision as to whether the ECT has satisfactorily met the Teachers’ Standards, based on the headteacher’s recommendation.
The new Spencer AB will provide a streamlined AB service for primary and secondary ECTs engaging with the ECF Training across the Hub area. We hope that our offer will support schools in navigating the recent changes to induction including the Early Career Framework.
Contact Details: ab@spencerteachingschoolhub.com
A 10% reduction is on offer for those undertaking the ECF programme with Spencer Teaching School Hub.
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We recommend that schools familiarise themselves with these key documents below to help them
This is the Early Career Framework, the ‘curriculum’ that the new induction for Early Career Teachers (ECTs) must deliver on. The Teacher Standards still remain the assessment tool against which ECTs will be judged to successfully complete induction.
This is a useful document which outlines the statutory requirements for schools and will support schools in making a decision on how they will support their ECTs: the full induction package (FIP), the core induction package (CIP) or the school-based induction.
For schools choosing the core induction package or the school-based induction, there is useful information on how the Appropriate Body will be involved ‘fidelity check’ your school’s plans. There are templates included and an outline of what to expect.
For schools looking to engage with our AB service
with the Hub in partnership with Education Development Trust