The Trainee Teacher Should Retain Their CEP

Career entry profile

Purpose of the Career entry profile

The Career entry profile (CEP) provides a summary of your initial teacher education and training (ITET) and helps you prepare for your statutory induction period at the start of your professional practice as a teacher. It does this by:

 helping you to focus your reflection on your preparation and development in the early stages of your teaching career

 helping you to engage in collaborative discussion when planning how to meet your professional learning needs

 providing a link between your ITET and the school(s) where you will serve your induction period.

All trainee teachers in Wales must be provided with a CEP. The CEP must be completed by you and your ITET tutor as it summarises the discussion you have had about your preparation and professional learning priorities.

Benefits of the CEP

The CEP helps you to:

 reflect on strengths in your practice and priorities for further development

 identify your professional learning needs

 prepare for meetings with your ITET tutor, your school-based mentor and your external mentor

 begin thinking about how you will develop your practice and your professional learning during your first teaching post

 start to prepare to meet the Practising Teacher Standards (PTS) at the end of your statutory induction period.

It helps your ITET provider to:

 support you in reflecting on your practice

 prepare you to play an active role in your induction period.

It helps your school to:

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 understand your strengths and experiences by the end of ITET

 understand which areas you feel require further development

 support your professional learning during your induction period (and during the first year of the Masters in Educational Practice (MEP) if you choose to apply for the programme).

Part 1: Summary of initial teacher education and training (ITET)

1.1 Training provider/recommending 1.2 Title of ITET programme body

1.3 Length of programme in years and 1.4 Is your training full-time or part-time? months

1.5 Date of successful programme completion

1.6 Age range (please circle)

3–8 3–11* 5–11* 7–11 7–14* 11–16 11–18 14–19

*Age range emphasis 3–8 5–8 7–11

1.7 Relevant experience gained outside ITET

1.8 Other information about the ITET programme1

Part 2: Competence in Welsh2 (if applicable) 1 Including distinctive features of your training and/or school experience, additional qualifications or certificates gained during ITET, details of school placements (e.g. year groups and subject(s) or topics taught), pastoral or extra-curricular experiences. WG21188 Career entry profile

Part 3: Professional learning guidance

In this section you are asked to provide examples from your ITET experience of your

2 Please provide a brief assessment covering both written and verbal skills, including experience of first and second language teaching. WG21188 Career entry profile professional learning.

The headings used in this section reflect the model of professional learning which is promoted for all educational practitioners in Wales.

The model provides practitioners with a coherent, flexible and robust framework which sets out the most effective approaches to professional development which have been informed by the latest academic research and which have been proven to positively impact on classroom practice.

The model sets out the key characteristics of effective professional development and applies these characteristics within the practitioner’s own individual context.

Please give one or more example of your learning to date under the following headings.

 Using data and evidence from research  Reflective practice  Coaching and mentoring  Effective collaboration with colleagues and external partners

Finally in this section you are invited to identify specific areas for your continuing professional learning. It would be helpful to specify for each area whether it is an area you find interesting or one you feel you need more support with.

Examples of opportunities you have taken to inform your practice with data and evidence-based research.

Examples of opportunities you have taken to benefit from reflecting on your practice.

Examples of where your practice has benefitted from coaching and mentoring.

Examples of opportunities you have taken to undertake collaborative enquiry with colleagues and external partners.

Areas you have identified for continuing professional learning (in addition to the national priorities for Wales).

Part 4: Confirmation of discussion and reflection with your ITET tutor

Both you and your ITET tutor should sign below to confirm that:

 you have jointly considered your experience from before, during and outside your formal ITET programme and identified the key points in relation to your training

 the information in the Summary of your Initial Teacher Education and Training (ITET) is correct.

Signature of trainee teacher Date

Name (in block capitals)

Signature of ITET tutor Date

Name (in block capitals) Job title

 In signing this confirmation, ITET tutors are not at the same time confirming that qualified teacher status (QTS) has been awarded.

 The trainee teacher should retain their CEP.

 ITET tutors should retain a copy of the CEP for their own records.

 The trainee teacher should take responsibility for their CEP and ensure that it is shared with their school when they begin their induction period.

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