Kingsbridge Institute of Learning

Thriving not 'Surviving' in your ECT Years

Session Outline:

The conference will explore the Early Career Framework in a range of ways, considering its purpose and structure and how it builds on Initial Teacher Training. The sessions will provide ECTs with a range of strategies, ideas and tips to help them not only survive but thrive in their ECT years. They will include practical advice of workload, wellbeing, classroom management and teaching and learning. The perfect conference to help teachers to feel more confident to meet the challenges of the classroom. 

Audience:

This session is aimed at Early Career Teachers in their first and second years and those entering the profession.

Speaker 1: Lynsey Hunter

This session will explore the Early Career Framework in a range of ways, considering its purpose and structure, and how it will build on Initial Teacher Training. It will discuss the importance of contextualising the ECF to our own settings and the strategies we might use to do this and look at ideas for ways in which we might use the ECF as a helpful tool for taking control of our own practice and professional development.   

Speaker 2: Sue Cowley

In this interactive, engaging and practical webinar, author, presenter and teacher trainer Sue Cowley will discuss a host of strategies, ideas and tips to help you survive and thrive in your ECT year. The session includes advice on dealing with workload and marking, managing your classroom, handling behaviour, effective approaches to teaching and learning, looking after your voice and ensuring your wellbeing. The session is designed to help you feel more confident about meeting the challenges of being a new teacher.

Lynsey Hunter - Biography

Lynsey Hunter is a Senior Lecturer in Primary and Early Years Education at Sheffield Hallam University, where she works as a Professional Practice lead across various undergraduate and post-graduate routes of Initial Teacher Education, and as Course Leader of the SENCO Award. She is currently leading on the Early Career Framework across the Teacher Education Department,  and has been involved in writing and creating materials being used for both the Early Roll Out and the National Roll Out of the Early Career Framework. She has delivered national training on the ECF for facilitators, mentors and ECTs and will continue to do so over the next three years in partnership with the Education Development Trust.  

Lynsey has spent her whole working life in Primary and Early Years education, and before starting her role at Sheffield Hallam, worked as a teacher in EYFS, KS1 and KS2, SENCO, Inclusion Manager, Headteacher of two Primary schools, Local Authority School Improvement Advisor in three different Local Authorities and Ofsted Inspector.  She has also served as a governor, been an advocate for parents of children with SEND and has been Chair of the Advisory Board for a cluster of Derbyshire Children’s Centres. This means that she brings with her a well-rounded perspective on education and considerable relevant experience in a whole range of roles (or as she herself describes it, ‘Jack of all trades, master of none!).  

Sue Cowley – Biography 

Sue Cowley is a teacher, trainer, presenter, and the author of more than 30 books on education, including How to Survive your First Year in Teaching and Getting the Buggers to Behave. She has taught in early years settings, primary and secondary schools, in the UK and overseas. Sue currently works internationally as a teacher trainer and consultant and she has been part of the management team at her local early years setting for the past fourteen years. 

Sue has written numerous articles and columns for publications including the TES, Teach Early Years, Nursery World, Early Years Educator, Teach Primary, Teach Secondary and Impact, the Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching. She has helped to author curriculum, training and educational materials for Oxford University Press and the Open University. 

Sue has featured in many educational videos and was a regular presenter on Teachers TV. She has provided keynotes and training for a wide range of organisations, including Early Education, Teach First, Headteacher Conferences, The Anna Freud Centre, Cambridge University, the NUT, Swim England and The Football Association. 

Sue’s latest books are The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation: Excellence for All (Bloomsbury) and Learning Behaviours: A Practical Guide to Self-Regulation in the Early Years (John Catt). To find out more, visit www.suecowley.co.uk.