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: embedding a positive climate for learning (PDF, 358 KB, 23 pages)
- Week 1: teacher expectations; challenging tasks; language & culture of challenge & aspiration
- Week 3: motivating pupils
- Week 4: helping pupils regulate their own emotions
Second half-term: how pupils learn – making it stick (PDF, 585 KB, 21 pages)
- Week 3: balancing exposition, retrieval, repetition & practice
- Week 4: retrieval practice techniques
Spring term
First half-term: enhancing classroom practice – grouping & tailoring (PDF, 322 KB, 15 pages)
- Week 3: grouping pupils effectively
- Week 4: model collaborative work effectively
Second half-term: revisiting the importance of subject & curriculum knowledge (PDF, 540 KB, 18 pages)
- Week 3: establishing secure knowledge
- Week 4: linking new ideas to existing knowledge
Summer term
First half-term: deepening assessment, feedback & questioning (PDF, 346 KB, 14 pages)
- Week 2: making assessment manageable & effective
- Week 4: high-quality feedback
Second half-term: continuing your professional development (PDF, 324 KB, 14 pages)
- Week 2: reflective practice
- Week 3: effective professional development