Ambition January 2026

Arrival time: From 9:00am
 

This session will build on participants’ understanding of adaptive teaching and how it is supported by formative assessment strategies. ECTs will also reflect on which aspects of their current practice support adaptive teaching, and through engaging with examples of teaching practice as well as discussion, further develop their understanding of how to be an adaptive teacher. It is advised that participants bring a lesson plan / resource that they have already planned to support with implementation.

Please ensure that you have a working camera and microphone and are signed into your own device in a suitable environment for a meeting.

This session will build on participants’ understanding of adaptive teaching and how it is supported by formative assessment strategies. ECTs will also reflect on which aspects of their current practice support adaptive teaching, and through engaging with examples of teaching practice as well as discussion, further develop their understanding of how to be an adaptive teacher. It is advised that participants bring a lesson plan / resource that they have already planned to support with implementation.

Please ensure that you have a working camera and microphone and are signed into your own device in a suitable environment for a meeting.

In this clinic we will explore how teachers can hold effective conversations with a range of people to support pupil wellbeing, motivation and progress. ECTs will understand the components of an effective professional conversation and know how effective conversations look in a range of contexts during the session. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on current practice when holding conversations with others.

Please ensure that you have a working camera and microphone and are signed into your own device in a suitable environment for a meeting.

Clinic focus; 

This clinic explores the importance of timely and effective feedback that both supports pupil progress and is considerate of workload, and exemplifies key principles of high-quality feedback through a range of scenarios. 

Before the session:

• Download or make a copy of the workbook

• Use your own device with a working camera and microphone

• Speak to your induction tutor if you need tech support

• Please see our guidance on professional conduct

Arrival time: From  9:00am

Session time: 09:30 am - 3:30 pm

This conference explores the principles of effective literacy and numeracy teaching across subjects, phases and contexts, and the positive impact this can have on progress in all subjects, as well as wider outcomes, for all pupils. 

Clinic focus:
This session explores the importance of pupils thinking hard during paired, group and whole-class discussions, and exemplifies key principles of supporting pupils to think hard in these contexts through a range of scenarios.

Before the session:

• Download or make a copy of the workbook

• Use your own device with a working camera and microphone

• Speak to your induction tutor if you need tech support

Please see our guidance on professional conduct

This session explores the importance of pupils thinking hard during paired, group and whole-class discussions, and exemplifies key principles of supporting pupils to think hard in these contexts through a range of scenarios

This session explores the importance of supporting all pupils, and, building on the knowledge participants have built over the course of the two years, how they can continue to provide additional, adapted and specialist support to meet a range of pupils' needs.

Arrival time: From 12.15pm

This session builds from mentor conference 2, which introduced a range of strategies mentors could use to adapt the coaching model in response to ECTs’ growing expertise. In this session, mentors make sense of their knowledge around adaptive expertise and are introduced to a further strategy they may choose to use. Mentors have the opportunity to practise and receive feedback on this strategy

Coaching for mentors is a training offer exclusively aimed at mentors on the ECTP (Early Career Teacher Programme)

Structure & Content 

The basic structure of CFM is a 1:1, 45 minutes to 1 hour long (or less) meeting between a mentor and a coach arranged at a time that is convenient to the mentor.

The session aims to support and develop the mentor's ability to coach their ECT in their weekly/fortnightly feedback meetings or to support the mentor in any way with anything at all. The focus might be related to the following areas of instructional coaching (but can be about anything else): 

• Selecting appropriate steps

 • Sharing the model 

• Sharing the step 

• Deliberate practice 

• Analysing the gap

Coaching for mentors is an ‘optional’ strand of the ECT programme.