Teacher Development Trust: CPD Research

Evidence shows that powerful CPD helps children succeed and teachers thrive. At the Teacher Development Trust we want to support teachers, school leaders and CPD providers to change and develop their approaches to CPD to ensure that all teachers are engage in CPD that...

Volunteers Required for NTEN ResearchED York

Volunteers Required for NTEN ResearchED York Saturday 3rd May 2014 Huntington School Huntington Rd YO32 9WT United Kingdom Saturday, 3 May 2014 from 09:00 to 16:00 (BST)   We are looking for volunteers to help out at the NTEN ResearchED conference on Saturday 3rd...

Slides from the ASCL conference

On Saturday 22nd March, our CEO David Weston presented a workshop at the ASCL Conference in Birmingham. You can download the slides here: You can find out more about the National Teacher Enquiry Network and the CPD Audit.  

Slides from the Education Show seminar

On Saturday 22nd March, our CEO David Weston gave a seminar on CPD and the new curriculum at the Education Show in Birmingham. You can download a copy of the slides here. You can find out more about the National Teacher Enquiry Network here.  

Slides from the United Learning conference

On Friday 21st March our CEO, David Weston, spoke at the United Learning conference about effective professional development. You can see the slides here:   David also shared the NTEN CPD Audit self-evaluation framework. You can find out more about this framework...

Are there too many ‘quick wins’ in teaching?

There are some teachers who talk too much without causing their pupils to think hard enough that they learn anything. What’s the solution? 1) Swiftly limit the teacher’s poor-quality talk to 5 minutes and suggest that students get on with their own work...

No More Grades?

A guest post for the Teacher Development Trust by Micon Metcalfe (@miconm),  Director of Finance and Business at Dunraven School. She is a Specialist Leader of Education. There’s been a really interesting debate on twitter & in the blogosphere this week...

The Coherence of Scottish Education

The Scottish education system has sometimes been criticised as being too consensual and lacking in urgency. However, coming from the aggressively partisan, political and relentlessly changing world of English education there were elements of today’s visit to the...