Guidance
Initial teacher training and early career framework
A framework to support trainee and early career teacher development.
Applies to England
Documents
Details
The initial teacher training and early career framework (ITTECF) sets out what trainee and early career teachers need to know, and know how to do, at the start of their careers.
It is for:
- accredited initial teacher training providers
- providers and schools who train early career teachers based on the ITTECF
From September 2025, the framework combines and replaces the:
The ‘review outcomes’ document summarises the outcomes of a review of the existing frameworks. The review informed the development of the initial teacher training and early career framework.
A call for evidence, seeking research to inform the review, ran between March and April 2023.
Published 30 January 2024