Report on a survey of early career secondary RE teachers: The First Year of Teaching: a follow-up survey to the Covid-cohort RE ITE survey 2021
Plater, M. (2022) Report on a survey of early career secondary RE teachers: The First Year of Teaching: a follow-up survey to the Covid-cohort RE ITE survey 2021. [Report]
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Abstract
In Autumn 2021 I published the results of a survey carried out that year across all ITE providers in England. The intention of that research was to explore the make-up and motivations of students applying to become secondary Religious Education teachers in the period 2020-21. A full copy of the report can be accessed at https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/881/ , and a summary of the findings is included as an appendix to this document. About half of the participants in the above study agreed to be contacted for a further survey in 2022. The focus of this further research was to be their experience as early career teachers. This report summarises their experience in applying for jobs, the nature of the teaching posts that they secured, their experience in being supported as early career teachers, and their hopes and dreams for the future. In addition, they were asked to reflect back on their previous training provision, including both the practical and academic elements of the ITE course that they completed. In addition to being the first ITE cohort to surpass the government’s target for RE ITE applicants in recent years, they are also the first to experience the new two-year induction into teaching, based on the 2019 Early Career Framework for teachers1 . This survey asks whether they are being provided with the various components intended by that programme, and what other resources and networks have been of help during their first year of teaching. This study provides only a snap-shot of the experience of these early career teachers, but my hope is that it will be of interest to the RE community and possibly provide further stimulus for additional research. On the whole it suggests that early career RE teachers are content in their work and positive about their future as teachers.
| Item Type: | Report |
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| Additional Information: | © 2022 Bishop Grosseteste University. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
| Depositing User: | Stephen Macdonald |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2022 11:02 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2022 11:02 |
| URI: | https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/971 |
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