Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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What's it like being a mentor on the Early Career Framework?
Vice Principal and mentor Maria Hawkes discusses the Early Career Framework, instructional coaching and deliberate practice, and shares some top tips for mentoring teachers.
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Knowledge, skills and confidence: The power of CPD
Design and technology teacher Mary Campbell shares how the Expert Middle Leaders programme has led to a shift in her teaching and leadership style, from curriculum delivery, to managing confrontation.
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Working effectively with a mentor on Early Career Teachers
From building knowledge, to translating general practice into her own context, Early Career Teachers participant Alicia Webster discusses how she's been working effectively with her mentor.
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‘Instructional coaching is the new mentoring’ with the Early Career Framework
A mentor from Ambition's Early Career Teachers programme tells us about the benefits of an instructional coaching approach to the Early Career Framework.
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Balancing the purposes of instructional coaching
Instructional coach and Ambition Fellow Steve Farndon explores some of the purposes of instructional coaching – comparing an emphasis on habit formation with one that prioritises the development of teachers’ mental models around teaching.