A long brick school building beside a tree and grass

“I want one structured route through my first two years, not twenty browser tabs.”

The Two-Year Early Career Programme

Primary and secondary Starting out Programme

What you will be able to do

  1. Work through the main themes of early career teaching in a deliberate order
  2. Build a portfolio of reflections you can bring to appraisal and interviews
  3. Move from surviving the timetable to shaping it

The programme, unit by unit

160 lessons in 8 units, 50 h 40 min in all. Lessons run about 19 minutes each, so you can fit one into a free period.

  1. High expectations and pupil motivation

    18 lessons · 5 h 42 min · running total 5 h 42 min

  2. How pupils learn

    20 lessons · 6 h 20 min · running total 12 h 2 min

  3. Subject knowledge and curriculum

    22 lessons · 6 h 58 min · running total 19 h

  4. Classroom practice

    24 lessons · 7 h 36 min · running total 26 h 36 min

  5. Adaptive teaching

    20 lessons · 6 h 20 min · running total 32 h 56 min

  6. Assessment and feedback

    22 lessons · 6 h 58 min · running total 39 h 54 min

  7. Managing behaviour

    20 lessons · 6 h 20 min · running total 46 h 14 min

  8. Professional habits and workload

    14 lessons · 4 h 26 min · running total 50 h 40 min

What is in the course

Streamed video lessons, watched online.

  • Eight modules released as a single library, so you can follow the sequence or jump to what you need now
  • Over a hundred and fifty lessons with classroom examples from both phases
  • Planning templates you rebuild on screen as the module goes
  • A portfolio prompt at the end of every module for your own records

Who it’s for

Teachers who want a single, complete route through their first two years, alongside the support their school gives them.

Primary and secondary teaching.

What this course is not

  • An accredited qualification. It is professional development, not an award from an exam board or a university.
  • Live teaching. There is no live tutor and no timetable. You press play when you are ready.
  • Marked or assessed. Nobody marks your work. Practice tasks are for your own planning and reflection.
  • A replacement for your school. It does not replace your school's own induction, or a SENCo's advice about a pupil.
  • Something to download. Everything is streamed online. There are no files to keep.

Watch it in your week

About 26 weeks at 2 hours a week

The lessons add up to 50 h 40 min, which is 50.7 hours. Give it 2 hours a week and 50.7 ÷ 2 = 25.3, rounded up to 26 weeks. That is about 6 lessons a week.

You have 24 months of access, so you can stop for a busy half-term and pick up where you left off.

  • 1 hour a week51 weeks
  • 2 hours a weekour suggestion26 weeks
  • 3 hours a week17 weeks
  • 5 hours a week11 weeks

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