The ITT Ofsted Inspection Framework highlights the importance of professional subject associations like ALL e.g. the ITE curriculum prepares trainees for a fulfilling and successful career as a teacher. Trainees are taught how to manage their workloads and how to maintain their own health and welfare, as well as how to engage with relevant subject and/or scholarly communities, including communities of practice relating to technical and vocational training, where relevant. (‘Professional behaviours’ – our bold text.)

ALL offers information, guidance, peer-to-peer support and CPD events for primary and secondary language teachers through its professional networks around the country. If you are an Early Career Teacher, then we have a special membership package for you. Join here.

We are here for you from your first to your final day of teaching, with information to support you at every career stage. As time progresses we hope you may feel able to share ideas with others, including the next generation of trainee teachers and ECTs. We encourage you to retain your membership so that you can develop your professional skills perhaps as a speaker within an ALL Local Group or online, or a writer, reviewer of resources or contributor to one of our online collections or our termly magazine, Languages Today.

The more you explore your membership benefits and engage with the Association, the more you, your students and your school will benefit. Ongoing membership of your subject association is a worthwhile investment in your professional future.

The Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ECF) sets out what early career teachers are entitled to learn about and learn how to do when they start their careers. It underpins the entitlement to 2 years of professional development designed to help early career teachers develop their practice, knowledge and working habits.

Check the Early Careers Teacher Entitlement here

The framework lists the requirements of 8 standards which build on Initial Teacher Training and which can be well supported by the benefits offered by membership of ALL.

Visit Become a member to find out about how ALL can continue to support you, at a reduced rate for the first 2 years of qualified teaching.

Here is your ALL Shortcut , a list of links and resources curated for you especially as an ECT: ‘ALL as your Language teaching career begins’

Teaching unions offer a range of support for ECTs with forums and network. They also offer advice with well-being, workload, pay , work status and more.

More information on choosing a teaching union that is right for you here

Schools advertise their posts on the DfE portal and on various websites or social platforms. Your ITE network may provide good advice about available jobs, but you wil also wish to visit websites such as the TES Jobs page , the Educational Guardian jobs page or teaching agencies, or social media platforms such as Linkedin where schools advertise their positions.

Following completion of the course there are possibilities to move to other types of visa, depending on your situation.

Check different eligibility for a graduate visa for ECTs here. Cost for Graduate Visa here

Please note the graduate visa is not a route towards settlement in the UK.