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<p>The Government aims to attract and retain highly skilled and talented individuals,
including men, through effective pay structures, financial incentives, and by ensuring
that teaching remains a sustainable and rewarding career.</p><p>The teacher pay increases
in recent years are making a substantial difference to the competitiveness of the
early career pay offer. This academic year, starting salaries have already increased
by 5.5%, with the majority of other teachers receiving 2.75%. The Department is also
committed to increasing starting salaries nationally to £30,000.</p><p>Alongside this,
the Department is introducing a new application service for teacher training, which
has been designed and extensively tested with a diverse range of potential applicants,
to ensure it helps remove barriers to potentially great teachers, including men, applying
for initial teacher training (ITT) courses.</p><p>The Department’s ‘Every Lesson Shapes
A Life’ recruitment campaign is targeted at audiences of students, recent graduates,
and potential career changers inclusive of all genders, and we take every effort to
ensure that our advertising is fully reflective of this across the full range of marketing
materials we use.</p><p>As well as recruiting new teachers, it is important the Department
retains male teachers in primary schools. To do this, we are working to make sure
that all new entrants to teacher training have the best possible start to the early
stage of their career.</p><p>This is why, from September 2020 onwards, new trainee
teachers will be entitled to at least three years of evidence-based professional development
and support, starting with ITT, based on the new ITT Core Content Framework (2019).
The new ITT Core Content Framework sets out a core minimum entitlement for all trainees
describing the fundamental knowledge and skills that all new entrants to the profession
need to effectively teach and support all children.</p><p>Following on from their
training, from this September all new teachers will be entitled to two years of funded
high-quality professional development including the support of a dedicated mentor,
through the Early Career Framework reforms. Schools will receive additional funding
so new teachers can spend time away from the classroom for this extra training and
mentoring. Together, these reforms will ensure that all new teachers will develop
the skills, expertise and confidence they need to thrive in the classroom.</p>
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