Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers
About the Book Series
Edited by Emma Hollis, Executive Director of NASBTT, The Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers provide accessible, carefully researched, quick reads for early career teachers, covering the key topics you will encounter during your training year and first two years of teaching. They complement and are fully in line with the new Early Career Framework and are intended to assist ongoing professional development by bringing together current information and thinking on each subject in one convenient place.
The Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework: A Handbook for Mentors and Mentees
1st Edition
By Henry Sauntson
May 25, 2026
This go-to manual for the Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework offers an accessible, supportive set of principles for new teachers. It breaks down the statements of the ITTECF and the evidence base behind them to present a set of core beliefs and ideas about what works in teaching....
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Understanding Your Role in Curriculum Design and Implementation
1st Edition
By Henry Sauntson
April 28, 2023
This is a must-read for early career teachers (ECTs), focusing on the role of the ECT in terms of school curriculum design and implementation. It explores the topics surrounding curriculum that those in training or ECT induction are likely to encounter and need to understand, and offers a range of ...
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Teaching Primary Foundation Subjects
1st Edition
By James Coleman
April 03, 2023
As Ofsted introduces a new framework with higher expectations regarding subject knowledge across the primary curriculum, there has never been a more important time for trainees to secure their subject knowledge and improve confidence. This book aims to help early career teachers in teaching primary...
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Professional Behaviours
1st Edition
By Colin Howard, Rachael Paige
October 17, 2022
This title outlines the personal and professional skills and behaviours needed to be an effective early career teacher beyond that of your own subject knowledge and class-based practices. It provides guidance on how to gain the most from mentoring conversations and how to develop good habits around...
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Teaching Early Years
1st Edition
By Lorna Williams, Colin Howard
October 17, 2022
Aimed at all beginning teachers involved in early years teaching. This text looks at the unique role of the early years teacher and outlines how you can support the development of children as unique individuals through an enabling environment, building success through effective relationships, ...
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Using Cognitive Science in the Classroom
1st Edition
By Kelly Richens
November 03, 2021
Linked to the Early Career Framework, this book provides an understanding of cognitive load theory and its application to teaching for all those training or new to the job. Cognitive science is fast becoming the cornerstone for understanding how students learn and is revolutionising the way we ...
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Understanding and Developing Positive Behaviour in Schools
1st Edition
By Patrick Garton
November 16, 2020
Behaviour is the number one concern for most early career teachers so this accessible book provides a range of research informed and road-tested strategies to support the development of positive classroom systems and structures. It offers key psychological insights into the factors that lie behind...
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Workload: Taking Ownership of your Teaching
1st Edition
By Julie Greer
November 12, 2020
Linked to the Early Career Framework, this book provides practical time management and productivity strategies to help new teachers tackle the issue of workload. Workload is a key issue for most beginning teachers. Trying to cope with all the demands of a new job with an increasing burden of ...
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Special Educational Needs and Disability
1st Edition
By Anita Devi
September 11, 2020
Provides you with the required knowledge and skills development around special educational needs and disability (SEND) as you progress through your early teaching career. Using an audit tool, the text builds on any previous training enabling you to ground and embed your practice for children and ...
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Mental Well-being and Self-care
1st Edition
By Sally McWilliam
October 21, 2019
The Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers provide accessible, carefully researched, quick-reads for early career teachers, covering the key topics they will encounter during their training year and first two years of teaching. They complement and are fully in line with the new Early Career ...
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Assessment
1st Edition
By Alys Finch
October 09, 2019
The Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers provide accessible, carefully researched, quick-reads for early career teachers, covering the key topics they will encounter during their training year and first two years of teaching. This title on Assessment provides a range of practical but ...