(*Cancelled) Early Career Teachers’ Professional Development Day 2021

At Department of Education, 15 Norham Gardens, OX2 6PY

** Sadly this year's conference has to be cancelled due to the delay in easing the national lockdown. We apologise to all teachers who have signed up and we will process all refunds shortly.**

Are you a secondary school teacher in your first few years of teaching? Come along to a day full of fresh ideas and research-informed CPD!

The programme will feature a choice of hands-on workshops and a poster session where practicing teachers will discuss their cutting-edge, subject-specific classroom-based research.

Keynote Speech: Using students’ perspectives to inform pedagogy and curriculum design (Dr. Jason Todd) and

Looking ahead: next steps in your career (Alison Robb-Webb, Matthew Abbott & Dr. Katharine Burn)

The choice of workshops to update your knowledge of the latest educational research and its applicability in practice will include:

•  Preventing and de-escalating challenging behaviour

•  Developing students’ questioning

•  Embedding metacognition-enhancing strategies in classroom practice

•  Reducing workload through whole class marking and feedback strategies

•  Bringing creative translation into the English or MFL classroom

Please see ECT Programme 2021 for the schedule of the day.

Some feedback from our delegates in the 2019 conference –

‘I had high expectations and they were met!’

‘The Hitting the Mark keynote was very powerful, informative and interesting ideas backed up by evidence.’ ‘The keynote was clear, concise and informative.’

‘The Poster Session was detailed and fascinating with relevance across all subjects.’ ‘It was very interesting and subject specific.’

‘Being a Teacher in the Digital Age was a really important idea about being aware of power / network structures in social spaces. Thank you!’

‘Rethinking our Planning for Inclusive Teaching was inspirational and far-reaching.’