ECT History Teacher – Secondary School – Coventry

A welcoming and well-structured secondary school in Coventry is seeking an enthusiastic Early Career Teacher (ECT) of History to join its thriving Humanities department. This is an excellent opportunity for a newly qualified teacher to start their career in a school with clear routines a well-sequenced curriculum and strong mentoring that helps ECTs develop confidence and classroom impact quickly.

The school serves a diverse local community and has built a strong reputation for academic progress consistent behaviour systems and a supportive environment where staff are encouraged to grow professionally.

The Role

As ECT History Teacher you will teach across Key Stages 3 and 4 delivering engaging lessons that build students historical knowledge and develop key disciplinary skills. You will be supported to plan and teach lessons that:

• Develop curiosity and strong substantive knowledge across a range of periods

• Build disciplinary thinking including causation significance change and continuity

• Strengthen source evaluation and interpretation through structured practice

• Improve extended writing through modelling scaffolding and purposeful feedback

Students explore a broad range of topics that may include British history the development of power and rights conflict and international relations social change and key turning points in the modern world. Lessons are designed to encourage discussion and debate while ensuring students can write well-evidenced well-structured answers.

You will receive guidance and resources to support planning assessment and classroom routines so you can focus on developing excellent teaching practice.

ECT Support and Development

This role offers strong ECT support aligned to the Early Career Framework. You will benefit from:

• Regular mentoring from an experienced History teacher

• Protected time for training planning and reflection

• Coaching on behaviour routines adaptive teaching and assessment

• Opportunities to observe excellent practice within Humanities and across the school

• Collaborative planning and shared resources to reduce workload

The school understands that the first years in teaching matter and provides the structure and support needed to thrive.

The Department

The Humanities department is supportive collaborative and committed to high standards. Staff work closely to plan lessons share resources and develop consistent approaches that help students build knowledge over time and succeed at GCSE.

History is a popular subject within the school and the department values enquiry-based learning that helps students ask historical questions weigh evidence and develop their own interpretations. Intervention and revision support are well organised and staff work together to ensure students feel confident and well prepared for exams.

Enrichment opportunitiessuch as clubs themed events guest speakers and educational visitsare encouraged where possible to broaden students historical understanding and engagement.

The School

The school has clear and consistent behaviour expectations that create calm classrooms and purposeful learning. Leaders are visible and supportive and staff benefit from professional development that is practical subject-relevant and focused on improving day-to-day classroom practice.

The school is committed to inclusion and ensures all studentsincluding those with SEND and EALare supported through high-quality teaching effective scaffolding and targeted intervention.

What the School is Looking For

The successful candidate will:

• Be an ECT (or soon-to-qualify) and hold or be working towards QTS

• Have strong subject knowledge in History

• Deliver well-structured lessons that build knowledge and historical thinking

• Be committed to developing through mentoring coaching and training

• Establish a calm positive classroom culture with high expectations

• Work collaboratively within a supportive Humanities team

Why Join This School

• Strong ECT induction programme with supportive mentoring

• Collaborative Humanities department with shared planning and resources

• Clear behaviour systems that support confident teaching

• High-quality CPD and opportunities to develop your practice

• Welcoming Coventry school community focused on student progress

This is a fantastic opportunity for an Early Career History teacher to build confidence develop excellent classroom practice and bring the past to life for students in a supportive Coventry secondary school.