Please Note: If you are an ECT or Mentor who started training BEFORE September 2025, please click this link here to be taken to the correct information for you.
Based on the Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF) we are supporting teachers with our new specialist training programme for early career teacher entitlement (ECTE).
Overview
From September 2025, the term early career teacher entitlement (ECTE) replaces early career framework (ECF)-based training and induction. The training programme part is funded by DfE, with intakes starting in September 2025, January and April 2026.
Our Early Career Training Programme (ECTP) for ECTE empowers teachers with evidence-led knowledge and skills for immediate impact in the classroom. ECTP is based on the Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF) and designed around how people really learn. With a flexible approach that considers what works best in each teacher’s unique situation.
ECTs will access engaging in-person and online learning designed and delivered by experts. We understand how busy teachers are, so we’ve designed it to fit flexibly around their schedule with maximum accessibility.
To find out more about EDT, please click this link here to be directed to their website or click on the options below to find out more about curriculum and funding.
Curriculum
Our curriculum is constructed to take ECTs from foundational understanding of concepts and techniques – met first during their initial teacher training – through to mastery of this knowledge.
This is enabled through carefully timed revisiting of key Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF) concepts and skills, building in higher levels of complexity and depth, as appropriate to ECTs’ growing experience, understanding and confidence.
Year 1 ensures full coverage of ITTECF content, through personalised pathways that consolidate or extend ECTs’ understanding as appropriate.
Year 2 then opens out into structured but individualised learning that is owned by the ECT and their mentor – a phase that recognises the ECTs’ growing agency and prepares them for life beyond induction.
Self-directed study
Interactive, research led materials with extensive subject and phase-specific examples provide clear models of effective teaching for ECTs.
Mentor meetings
One-on-one sessions help ECTs apply research to their context, develop a pool of effective strategies, and set personalised action steps.
Training Sessions
Group sessions with expert facilitators to explore research, engage in deliberate practice and benefit from collaborative learning with peers.
Personalised Pathways
Tailored learning routes based on ECTs’ needs, prior experience, and school context to avoid repetition and focus on personal areas for development.
Diagnostic tools help mentors and facilitators adapt to ECTs’ evolving needs.
Inclusive by design
Enhanced guidance for teaching adaptively to every learner in the classroom, including those with additional needs and pupils from under-resourced backgrounds.
Evidence-led Approach
Access to top-tier international research, ensuring participants become research-literate and confident in evidence-informed practice.
Promotes intellectual rigour and creativity in engaging with various teaching methods, without prescribing a single “right way” to teach.
Funding
The Department for Education is funding all training, at no cost to schools.
All state funded schools, who offer statutory induction, will receive additional funding to deliver the Early Career Framework reforms.
The funding will cover:
- 5% off timetable in the second year of induction for all early career teachers to undertake induction activities including training and mentoring.
- Funding for mentors to spend time with early career teachers in the second year of induction – this is based on 20 hours of mentoring across the academic year.
Further information on funding can be found on GOV.UK.
How to Register
Select the image to the right to find instructions on how to sign up with us for your ECTP.
When you appoint an Early Career Teacher (ECT) you also need to sign up to Appropriate Body service (more information about this can be found here). Follow all 3 steps on the ECT induction sign up sheet and this will sign you up for both the training (ECTP) and Appropriate Body (AB) service.
Gov.uk link: https://manage-training-for-early-career-teachers.education.gov.uk/users/sign_in
ECT Manager Link: https://northernlights.ectmanager.com/Login.aspx
FAQs
I have signed up following the steps in ‘How to Register’ – what do I do now?
- Wait for EDT to send you login details to the online platform. Check your junk folder!
- Complete the onboarding questionnaire – you will not get access to the dashboard until you do this.
- On your dashboard, there is an online Induction package which will take you approx. one hour to complete. There are 3 versions: Induction Tutor package, Mentor Package and ECT Package. Login to your own dashboard to complete this – your engagement with this will be recorded.
- Visit the events tab and sign up for your first training session taking place this term.
I am a fully trained mentor and have mentored an ECT before – what has changed? Do I need to attend the training again?
To find out what has changed, complete the induction package on your dashboard. This will take you approximately 1 hour and will show you the key differences. You do not need to attend the training sessions but are welcome to do so if you think it would be beneficial.
I am a new mentor but my ECT started their training before September 25. Our dashboards look different – what should I do?
You should attend the training session this term as this will support you to be a mentor. Your facilitator will point out the parts that are relevant for new ECTs and what you need to do for ECTs who started their training before September 25 and are following the ECPDP.
Handbooks to support Induction Tutors, Mentors and ECTs
ECT and Mentor Training Dates
Please find below the training dates for ECTs and Mentors who begin their training in September 2025. Any ECTs who begin their training in September 2025, January 2026 and April 2026 will access the training sessions below as there is one cohort per year.
ECTs – you need to attend 1 session per term out of the 3 options.
Both Mentors and ECTs MUST book their place via the events tab on the portal. If you do not book your place and arrive on the day we may not be able to accommodate you due to venue sizes. Login to the platform here to book.
ECT Autumn Term Training Dates
September 2025 Starter
Session 1 – 18.11.25 – 09:00-16:00 – Venue TBC (EYFS / Primary / Secondary)
Session 2 – 19.11.25 – 09:00-16:00 – Venue TBC (EYFS / Primary / Secondary)
Session 3 (SEND focus*) – 20.11.25 – 09:00-16:00 – Sunningdale School
ECT Spring Term Training Dates
September 2025 Starter
January 2026 Starter
Session 1 – 24.03.26 – 09:00-16:00 – Venue TBC (EYFS / Primary / Secondary)
Session 2 – 25.03.26 – 09:00-16:00 – Venue TBC (EYFS / Primary / Secondary)
Session 3 (SEND focus*) – 26.03.26 – 09:00-16:00 – Sunningdale School
ECT Summer Term Training Dates
September 2025 Starter
January 2026 Starter
April 2026 Starter
Session 1 – 16.06.26 – 09:00-16:00 – Venue TBC (EYFS / Primary / Secondary)
Session 2 – 17.06.26 – 09:00-16:00 – Venue TBC (EYFS / Primary / Secondary)
Session 3 (SEND focus*) – 18.06.26 – 00:00-16:00 – Sunningdale School
Mentor Autumn Term Training Dates
September 2025 Starter
08.10.25 – 09:00-16:00 – Venue TBC
Mentor Spring Term Training Dates
September 2025 Starter
January 2026 Starter
September 2025 Starter – 03.02.26 – 14:00-16:00 – Virtual – Link available on EDT platform here.
January 2026 Starter – 10.02.26 – 09:00-16:00 – Venue TBC
Mentor Summer Term Training Dates
September 2025 Starter
January 2026 Starter
April 2026 Starter
September 2025 Starter – 02.06.26 – 13:00-15:00 – Virtual – Link available on EDT platform here.
January 2026 Starter – Date TBC – delivered by EDT – Virtual
April 2026 Starter – 19.05.26 – 09:00-16:00 – Venue TBC
*If you are an ECT and considering attending a session at Sunningdale, please first visit their website and look at the curriculum content that the session will be based around: Curriculum Pathways – Sunningdale School. If you work in Specialist Provision, but your pupils access National Curriculum, the Sunningdale sessions may not be the right option for you. Please contact the Teaching School Hub if you require any guidance with this.
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