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 the opportunity to engage in a support programme 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 induction, access to PLD (professional learning and development) events throughout the year (many of them free or subsidised) and free resources.
We also offer every graduate free personalised, expert careers advice for 3 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 for more information.
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 the ECT virtual learning environment (Moodle)
For further details please email echt@hope.ac.uk
Qualified Teacher Employment Day
Monday 21st September - online via Zoom - 09:30-16:00.
If you need further support with gaining employment please attend our Employment Day.
Our free Employment Day will give you the chance to hear from current headteachers, former teachers, agencies and careers advisers. We have range of talks, training and workshops that you can book onto, including a PLD (professional learning and development) session on managing attachment and trauma in a post-covid classroom. Join us for the whole day or just the session(s) that interest you most.
Liverpool Hope offers all our Early Career Hope Teachers the opportunity to engage in our PLD support programme to further develop your knowledge, skills and ability in the key areas that are essential to becoming an effective and competent teaching practitioner.
Liverpool Hope University; Early Career Teacher free PLD (professional learning and development)
Liverpool Hope Early Career Teacher PLD Programme Outcomes
- Increase ECT employability.
- Improve ECT classroom practice.
- Improve ECT confidence to deal with complex pedagogical issues.
- Develop critically reflective ECT practice.
- Increase pupil attainment and progress.
Learning Outcomes
- Critically engage with theoretical current pedagogical practices.
- Develop the capacity to think independently about essential pedagogical issues, concepts and ideas in relation to participants own practice.
- Make effective use of professional learning to positively impact individual educational practice.
Early Career Teacher TeachMeets:
A TeachMeet is an organised but informal meeting for teachers to share good practice, practical innovations and personal insights in teaching.
Teachers are social people, who like discussing and sharing best practice. Unfortunately, teachers also rarely have the time to do this. When training to be a teacher, you constantly pick up tips from other teachers, you have PLD opportunities and are frequently sent to events – but how do we keep sharing and learning about great practice after this?
If you’ve never been to a TeachMeet before, it is essentially local teachers getting together to share 5-7 minute teaching ideas with each other over a cup of tea and biscuits.
Getting involved in the mini presentations also allows you to network with other teachers more easily.
What’s great about TeachMeets?
They’re full of quick snippets of ideas, and you meet lots of former colleagues who are teaching in other local schools which means you can network after the presentations. They help you to reflect on your own practice and critically engage with current pedagogical strategies.
Thursday 19th November 4.30pm-6.30pm BOOK HERE
Thursday 4th February 4.30pm-6.30pm BOOK HERE
Thursday 29th April 4.30pm-6.30pm BOOK HERE
ECT drop ins
Veronica Poulter will be available on Wednesdays 4.30pm-5.30pm during term time for support and advice. Her office is HCAWW087. To arrange one of these drop-in sessions email Veronica directly via poultev@hope.ac.uk.
Induction tutor training
Liverpool Hope University also supports Induction Tutors in schools by offering a PLD course ‘Developing the Role of the Induction Tutor for Newly Qualified Teachers’. For more information on PLD offered by Liverpool Hope University please visit our dedicated PLD webpage
Accredited PLD
Newly Qualified Ambitious Hope Teachers have the opportunity to pursue an accredited ECT support programme and achieve 30 Masters level credits during the early stages of their careers, specifically supporting the ECT Induction phase. The Developing Practice for Early Career Teachers module builds directly upon trainees initial training and is intended to help participants to acquire the knowledge, skills and understanding essential to becoming effective, informed and reflective practitioners. ECTs from Liverpool Hope University receive a 50% discount on this course and the option to progress onto further Masters Study.
The full fee for this course is normally £866 but is available for LHU ECTs for £433 (50% discount).
Developing Practice Accredited Module dates: 9.30am - 3.30pm
Saturday 17th October 2020
Saturday 5th December 2020
Saturday 6th March 2021
Saturday 24th April 2021
To apply ECTs need to contact pld@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.
Please do not hesitate to contact us at Liverpool Hope University: echt@hope.ac.uk
The Early Career Framework (ECF):
What does it mean for early career teachers (ECTs) and schools?
Context: The Early Career Framework (ECF) reforms set out a new 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 trainig and development opportunities available to teachers.
For the Early Career Framework briefing, please click here.
Please find below a range of links and documents that may be useful to you during your induction year and beyond:
Please find below a link to Liverpool Children and Young People's Service and relevant Diocesan Boards which also have a duty to make sure all ECTs have met the standards set by the Department for Education. A programme of training is also provided which will supplement your school's own induction programme.
Local Authorities
Dioceses
For those of you searching for a teaching position, you can find serveral useful resources under the 'Employment' section of the Early Career Hope Teacher Platfom here.
