Elaine Long
Appears in 39 Episodes
Fostering strong professional relationships: Find your staffroom friends | ECF Staffroom
Nancy Karmali-Belmonte and Farzana Akther respond to our ECTs' questions, and remind us that looking after wellbeing and being a good teacher are two sides of the same...
‘Giving ECTs springs to run a marathon’: enthusiasm for UCL’s ECF programme | ECF Staffroom
Mark and Elaine speak to Louise Dwyer, Assistant Headteacher at the Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls, and discuss how the ECF builds upon a growing movement of evidenc...
‘Speak up and speak out even if your voice shakes’: Anti-racism is too important to leave to chance | ECF Staffroom
Alison Wiggins, a PGCE and anti-racist lecturer, emphasises the need for teachers to develop their racial literacy – 'naming it changes the power of it.' She talks ab...
‘Be unapologetically yourself’: ECF Director Hilary Adli shares her recipe for success | ECF Staffroom
Hilary talks about her journey as an educator and doles out some advice for early career teachers (ECTs): find the joy, discover your own teacher persona, and be unapo...
Taking the Staffroom on the road: Gatecrashing an Induction Tutor conference in East London | ECF Staffroom
Tapping into the experience of induction tutors, facilitators and an ECF lead to learn about ensuring high-quality mentoring and cultures of professional learning. El...
What teaching does to people as people: What can ECF Providers learn from ITE? | ECF Staffroom
Jan shares her wisdom from decades in teaching and teacher education. She reminds us why teaching can be a great – and still greater – profession to join. She talks a...
Making mentoring meaningful: not just ticking the box | ECF Staffroom
Liam Anderson has packed a huge amount into his 8 years and, when you hear how he fills his days, you will understand how. Fortunately, he is also a mentor on the UCL ...
One Hundred Years of Gratitude: 4 old teachers walk into a staffroom | ECF Staffroom
Elaine and Mark add their mere 42 years of classroom experience to the 58 (and counting) of Annie Powell and Helen Lugger, meeting in the staffroom to answer questions...
Everything Everywhere All At Once: The life of a Year 1 ECT | ECF Staffroom
Kate Hill, a first year ECT, is an Art teacher at Chosen Hill School near Cheltenham. She talks about having ‘to be like a swan’, projecting calm when nothing seems to...
The distinct skillsets of good mentoring | ECF Staffroom
Being an ECT cheerleader and a facilitator of their pedagogical progress. Haili Hughes is a writer, expert on mentoring and facilitator on the UCL ECF programme. Ha...
Top advice from our education coach: Remember you’ve got a body… and listen to it | ECF Staffroom
Siobhan Goffee is co-host of the podcast series and coaching programme for educators, ‘Joyblockers – and how to get rid of them’. Siobhan talked to us about when teac...
‘Sometimes it can feel like we have to pick up the pieces and do things for ourselves' | ECF Staffroom
Why the ECF programme needed to be adapted for teachers in special schools Melanie Hogan is the deputy headteacher at Castlebar Special School in Ealing. Melanie invi...
Breaking the cycle of inequality: making space for LGBTQ+ issues on the ECF programme | ECF Staffroom
Emanuele Frascadore is in his first year of the ECF Programme at Rosedale College, in Hayes. He talks with us about how we can create an inclusive environment for LGBT...
Doing a week in a day: practitioner inquiry for busy Early Career Teachers | ECF Staffroom
Tayaba Chaudhry, Celeste Leonard and Liv Moran are in their second year of their ECF Programme at Burnage Academy in Manchester. They are joined by Erin Brown, their i...
Taking ownership of their own learning: mentoring on Year 2 of the ECF programme | ECF Staffroom
Kate Atkin is a Deputy Headteacher at Balby Central Primary Academy in Doncaster. As a facilitator on Year 2 of the Early Roll Out Programme, she shares with us how sh...
The 'we are in it together approach' to facilitation: keeping an eye on ECTs’ welfare | ECF Staffroom
Jill Whitehouse is a Deputy Headteacher in South Gosforth First School. She is a mentor and a facilitator on the ECF programme. She talked to us about her many years’ ...
Taking risks: ECTs trying something new and not being afraid of it | ECF Staffroom
Nathan Williams, Mitchell Scott and Daniel Ruy Pereira are in the second year of their ECF programme. We talked to them about how they had enjoyed working on their pra...
Dilemma-based facilitation: experienced facilitators share what goes wrong for them… and what they do about it | ECF Staffroom
Stephanie Bingham is the Regional Lead for ECF for Newcastle University and the North-East Teaching School Partnership. Stephanie works with dozens of schools and sch...
The game's always changing, so keep playing it: keeping a focus on professional learning | ECF Staffroom
James Stubbs is a mentor in a secondary school in Durham. James talks to us about how he collaborated with his ECT to ensure the work of the programme has never becom...
