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<p>One of the department’s priorities is to ensure that we continue to attract, retain,
and develop the highly skilled teachers needed, as set out in our Teacher Recruitment
and Retention Strategy in 2019. In the 2020/21 academic year, the department exceeded
the postgraduate initial teacher training (ITT) target in religious education (129%
of target), and in 2021/22 we met 99% of the target.</p><p> </p><p>The department
does not prescribe the curriculum content of initial teacher training (ITT) courses.
However, courses must be designed so that teacher trainees can demonstrate that they
meet all of the Teachers' Standards at the appropriate level. The ITT Core Content
Framework sets out a minimum entitlement of knowledge, skills and experiences that
trainees need to enter the profession in the best position possible to teach and support
all children and young people. The framework is not subject specific but sets out
a minimum entitlement to training that accredited ITT providers must incorporate into
their primary and/or secondary ITT curricula. It is up to partnerships to make choices
around curriculum and sequencing to suit the subject, phase, and age range that trainees
will be teaching.</p><p> </p><p>Beyond the first few years of teaching, the department’s
priority is to help all teachers and school leaders to continuously develop their
expertise throughout their careers. We have improved our training support offer to
all schools and teachers, to ensure that they receive high quality training and development
at every stage of their career, from initial teacher training and the introduction
of the Early Career Framework (ECF) reforms through to leadership qualifications.</p><p>
</p><p>The ECF reforms were introduced to improve support for early career teachers.
The ECF itself underpins what all early career teachers should learn about and learn
how to do based on expert guidance and the best available research evidence. It is
designed to work for all early career teachers of religious education as well as all
others regardless of subject, phase and/or school.</p>
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