Information for induction leads – creating a timeline for ECTs completing Year 1 or Year 2

If you are an induction lead and using our Appropriate Body (AB) service, you are no doubt aware the formal assessment reports for your ECTs who started in September 2021 or September 2022 are due to be submitted in early July.  We thought it may be helpful to remind you of what will happen and when, together with the actions that should be completed ahead of the submission of these reports. This process is separate to any self study and instructional coaching or the CPD programmes, although this will of course, feed into the writing of the end of year reports.

All alerts for the release of these reports will be generated automatically through our online AB service, ECT Manager and will come to you via email. Your reports are also recorded from within ECT manager for ease of use.

The recommended timeline of actions is below:

• Early in term 6, a more formal observation of your ECTs should be timetabled by the Induction Lead in order to feed into your judgements and commentary into the formal assessment reports;
• Following the observation, a 1:1 meeting should be timetabled with each ECT by the Induction Lead in order to discuss, agree and finalise the formal report.  It would be useful to meet with the ECT’s mentor prior to this meeting so they can feed in their knowledge of how the ECT has done this year and their progress against the teacher standards;
• Formal assessment reports for both ECT1s and ECT2s (who started on 1.0 FTE contracts in either September 2021 or 2022) are released to Induction Leads via ECT Manager around the second week of June.
• Completed reports (including digital signature from head teacher show should be registered on ECT Manager) are usually due for submission on or before 06/07/2023 although there is some variance based upon registration dates.

For those of you who have other ECTs in schools  where a Progress Review report is requested (rather than a formal assessment), dates and timings may vary depending upon their contract details and start date. Once again requests for such reports will be automatically generated via ECT Manager.

Thank you for your continuing support of mentors and ECTs, and if you have any queries or require any further information about the processes/schedule as outlined above, please don’t hesitate to contact either the central team or your designated AB quality assurance officer, your QAO. Our email address for specific AB queries is: [email protected]

Don’t forget to register any  new ECTs using the 3 step registration process –

1. via the DfE portal, noting that DfE portal for September 2023 starters opens in early July 2023
2. for the Five Counties giving us some background information; and
3. for the AB on ECT Manager (your ECTs will need to have QTS before registration)