The EEF has today welcomed the launch of the Department for Education’s Early Career Framework, part of its new Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy
This will ‘underpin a fully-funded, 2‑year package of structured support for all early career teachers linked to the best available research evidence – alongside funded time off-timetable in the second year of teaching and additional support for mentors’.
The EEF will be funding pilots from September 2019 to consider how to effectively train mentors to support early career teachers, which will be followed by further trialling to support national roll-out.
Sir Kevan Collins, Chief Executive of the EEF, commented: