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Professional Development in Science: An entitlement for all primary teachers
As the final sentence in a chapter on Professional Development and Learning in the newly published ASE Guide to Primary Science Education (Serret and Earle, 2018), my fellow author Bryony Turford and I assert that, ‘Development and learning in science is an entitlement for all…
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The four tests of good CPD in your school
This piece by GoodCPDGuide support officer Sarah Coskeran originally appeared in Sec Ed. This is one of the articles in the TDT December Newsletter (sign up here). Research shows that ensuring good professional development for all staff is one of the most effective ways to improve outcomes for…
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GoodCPDGuide Newsletter
Welcome to the first installment of our new GoodCPDGuide monthly newsletter. This newsletter will help you keep up to date on all that’s new and interesting at the GoodCPDGuide. We’ll feature news articles and advice relating to finding and providing effective professional development. We hope you’ll…
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GoodCPDGuide Conference 2013: “Excellence in Training: Growing and Improving as a CPD Provider”
This blog describes our inaugural GoodCPDGuide Event for CPD Providers. This is one of the articles in the TDT October Newsletter (sign up here). When we talk about professional development, and how to make sure it is effective, evidence-based, and targeted at the areas schools need most,…
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Press Release: TDT responds to Ofqual announcement about exam board seminars
Tighter rules and more transparency for exam board seminars are welcome but more needs to be done to support teaching quality The Teacher Development Trust, a charity founded by teachers to improve the educational outcomes for children by ensuring they experience the most effective learning,…
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Every Child Counts Approach to Professional Development
Every Child Counts aims to help schools to raise achievement of children who have fallen behind in mathematics and raise standards for all children. Every Child Counts offers schools two powerful approaches to intervention teaching: Numbers Count and 1stClass@Number. This post explains the former. It…
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The Good CPD Guide
The Good CPD Guide is the free national CPD database. This article explains how it works. This is one of the articles in the National Teacher Enquiry Network May Half Term Newsletter (sign up here). The GoodCPDGuide is the national CPD database for schools and teachers. We started…
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Providing better professional development
The Teacher Development Trust works with hundreds of professional development providers through our GoodCPDGuide database and a key part of our mission is to help everyone improve the impact on pupil outcomes in the long term. We’ve distilled some of the key ideas we use…