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We speak to Early Career Teachers, mentors and participants at all levels of the ÂÒÂ×Ðã Early Career Teacher Development programme.

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Episodes

Season 01

• The game's always changing, so keep playing it: keeping a focus on professional learning
• Dilemma-based facilitation: experienced facilitators share what goes wrong for them… and what they do about it
• Taking risks: ECTs trying something new and not being afraid of it
• The 'we are in it together approach' to facilitation: keeping an eye on ECTs’ welfare
• Taking ownership of their own learning: mentoring on Year 2 of the ECF programme
• Doing a week in a day: practitioner inquiry for busy Early Career Teachers
• Breaking the cycle of inequality: making space for LGBTQ+ issues on the ECF programme

Season 02

• ‘Sometimes it can feel like we have to pick up the pieces and do things for ourselves'
• Top advice from our education coach: Remember you’ve got a body… and listen to it
• The distinct skillsets of good mentoring
• Context is king: how ECTs are affected by the conditions they are working in and by their own personal dispositions
• Everything Everywhere All At Once: The life of a Year 1 ECT
• One Hundred Years of Gratitude: 4 old teachers walk into a staffroom
• Making mentoring meaningful: not just ticking the box

Season 03

• What teaching does to people as people: What can ECF Providers learn from ITE?
• Taking the Staffroom on the road: Gate-crashing an Induction Tutor conference in East London
• ‘Be unapologetically yourself’: ECF Director Hilary Adli shares her recipe for success
• ‘Speak up and speak out even if your voice shakes’: Anti-racism is too important to leave to chance
• ‘Giving ECTs springs to run a marathon’: Louise Dwyer’s enthusiasm for ÂÒÂ×Ðã’s ECF programme
• Fostering strong professional relationships: Find your staffroom friends
• ‘Be ambitious and fail, but don't fail to be ambitious'
• "If participants don’t value their learning, then what is left?"

Season 04

• Thinking about life through all of their eyes
• Lessons from Catalonia

Special edition

The ECF Staffroom brings you this special ECF Staffroom episode, with Simon Herdman, an ECT at the Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children:

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