When you choose the Wonder Institute of Education as your Early Careers provider, you will be joining a family of professionals, that are dedicated to supporting you to build an exciting future in teaching. By incorporating our shared vision of educate, empower, engage, and enrich into all our Early Careers opportunities we will build a strong foundation for you to make a difference and provide an excellent education for generations of children.
The Tools You Need to Pursue Excellence
We believe that education should be extraordinary and provide experiences that allow you to develop both professionally and personally into your teaching role. Over the course of our Early Careers programmes, we support you to develop the tools you need to pursue excellence in all you do. By providing bespoke professional development last year, we empowered our interns from passive observers to teachers in just three weeks witnessing an incredible transformation in both confidence and empowerment.
Being able to engage and connect with others is essential in education. We facilitate professional development, where interns, ITTs and ECTs can collaborate, share ideas, and work together.
We have noted feedback that ECTs value the opportunity to speak to other ECTs on the programme but rarely find the opportunity to be able to do this. We have introduced half termly ECT Meets, where ECTs from all schools within the Wonder Learning Partnership and the surrounding area are invited to participate in their own dedicated networking session. These sessions are intended to go beyond the Early Careers Framework by touching on areas, where we know ECTs will need some additional support, such as preparing for your first parents evening.
We aim to inspire and enrich you on our Early Careers programmes exposing you to a wealth of opportunities and experiences that broaden your holistic understanding of working in education. These are often planned but on some occasions our interns have had the good fortune to be involved in special school events which are all fabulous experiences and demonstrate the breadth and depth of being a teacher!
A Pathway into Teaching with Wonder
1 Internship Programme
Our internship programme, and our back-to-school days, provide you with an opportunity to spend time in schools, working with children and teachers, to help you determine if this is the right career for you.
2 Initial Teacher Education (ITE)
If you decide you want to continue with your teaching path, you can move to the next stage of your journey and complete your Initial Teacher Education with the Wonder Institute of Education and York St John University.
3 Early Careers Teacher (ECT)
Finally, on completing your Initial Teacher Education year, you will be guaranteed an interview with any of our schools, if an appropriate position becomes available. If you are successful you will move onto our two-year induction programme as an Early Careers Teacher.
Join us along the Pathway
We do appreciate that everyone has different starting points, so you are welcome to join our Early Careers Path at any point. You may know you want to be a teacher and have experience in schools, if this is the case you may want to join us for your Initial Teacher Education. Alternatively, you may be looking for your first teaching job, and if you are appointed at one of our schools, you will be joining us for your Early Careers Teaching induction.
If you are interested in participating in any of our Early Career Programmes and have any questions or simply want to know more then please do not hesitate to contact us at the IOE@WLP.education.