If you have recently completed your initial teacher education with Liverpool Hope University, these pages are here to help you as you begin your early teaching career.
We realise that your first year as a teacher can be both exciting and daunting with many challenges ahead. This is why our commitment to you as an Early Career Hope Teacher (ECHT) does not stop once you have graduated. We feel it is crucial to continue to support and encourage you during your first year of teaching and beyond to ensure you have a strong foundation to become outstanding and ambitious practitioners.
Liverpool Hope offers all our Early Career Hope Teachers support to further develop your knowledge, skills and ability in the key areas that are essential to becoming an effective and competent teaching practitioner. Even if you have not secured a teaching position as yet, you will have access to the Early Career Hope Teacher Platform which contains information about employment, statutory ECT (early career teacher) induction, access to PLD (professional learning and development), in the form of Subject Research Reviews and other free resources.
We offer every graduate free personalised, expert careers advice. For three years after you graduate, our Careers & Employability Team are here to help you on the journey to your dream career. Visit our personalised careers advice page and the 'Employment' section of the ECHT Platform for more information.
If you are seeking your first teaching post and require some guidance, there will also be two careers events across the year which will provide tips and advice for your application and interview. Further information and dates will be sent to your university email.
If you would like some further classroom experience to add to your CV, we can also source some voluntary and unassessed classroom practice for you. Please get in touch with the ECT team if you feel that you could benefit from this: ECHT@hope.ac.uk.
Free Support
We continue to support our early career teachers in a variety of ways. You will continue to have
- Access to our library and its resources, as well as use of the physical spaces and photocopiers
- Liverpool Hope University student email
- Access to E-Profile
- Early Career Hope Teacher (ECHT) Newsletters
For those starting your induction period, you will undertake an intensive and rewarding programme of training provided by your school and underpinned by the Early Career Framework. Should you require any additional support, remember that you can always contact your subject tutors directly or the ECT team here at Hope: ECHT@hope.ac.uk.
Our full range of Postgraduate courses can be found on the Study with Us School pages and specific information about the Education MA can be found here.
The early career framework (ECF):
What does it mean for early career teachers (ECTs) and schools?
The early career framework (ECF) reforms set out a requirement for a two-year programme of support and development for new teachers after they complete initial teacher training. The reforms are part of the government's teacher recruitment and retention strategy, which aims to improve the training and development opportunities available to teachers.
To view the early career framework please click here: early career framework.
Please find below a range of links and documents that may be useful to you during your induction year and beyond:
The Children and Young People's Service for each Local Authority and Diocesan Boards also have a duty to make sure all ECTs have met the standards set by the Department for Education.
