Education Development Trust’s handbooks and training outlines
Handbooks
These materials outline how Education Development Trust’s coaching and mentoring programme works.
Individual block overviews
The block overviews show what early career teachers will learn in each module during their induction.
- Overview: block 1 (PDF, 192 KB, 3 pages)
- Overview: block 2 (PDF, 182 KB, 3 pages)
- Overview: block 3 (PDF, 218 KB, 3 pages)
- Overview: block 4 (PDF, 194 KB, 4 pages)
- Overview: block 5 (PDF, 182 KB, 3 pages)
- Overview: block 6 (PDF, 210 KB, 3 pages)
- Overview: block 7 (PDF, 177 KB, 2 pages)
- Overview: block 8 (PDF, 165 KB, 2 pages)
- Overview: block 9 (PDF, 172 KB, 2 pages)
- Overview: block 10 (PDF, 182 KB, 3 pages)
- Overview: block 11 (PDF, 143 KB, 3 pages)
- Overview: block 12 (PDF, 201 KB, 2 pages)
Training outlines
Each block features up to 3 dedicated training sessions where experienced practitioners will share practical applications of what early career teachers are learning.
The materials show what should be covered during these training sessions.
Autumn term
First half-term: establishing a positive climate for learning (PDF, 320 KB, 19 pages)
- Week 2: setting clear expectations
- Week 3: early and least-intrusive interventions
- Week 4: least-intrusive interventions and building relationships
Second half-term: how pupils learn – memory and cognition (PDF, 485 KB, 22 pages)
- Week 2: cognitive load and implications for your practice
- Week 3: prior knowledge, misconceptions & worked examples
Spring term
First half-term: developing effective classroom practice – teaching & adapting (PDF, 475 KB, 20 pages)
- Week 2: structuring lessons for progress
- Week 3: practice makes perfect
- Week 4: adapting teaching
Second half-term: the importance of subject & curriculum knowledge (PDF, 323 KB, 12 pages)
- Week 3: developing pupils’ literacy
- Week 4: improving literacy skills through oral language & written tasks
Summer term
First half-term: assessment, feedback & questioning (PDF, 391 KB, 20 pages)
- Week 2: effective assessment
- Week 4: using questioning
- Week 5: providing verbal feedback
Second half-term: a people profession (PDF, 324 KB, 12 pages)
- Week 1: building effective relationships with parents, carers & families
- Week 2: building trusting relationships with pupils