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Destination or Dead End? Six features of career-savvy schools
In a time of huge pressure on staffing, some schools (and school groups/chains) are streets ahead when it comes to what’s on offer for careers. In too many schools, career development is only for teachers and it means less classroom, more management. Staff are increasingly…
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How to teach mathematics?
A leading figure in mathematics education, Mark McCourt has led many large-scale government education initiatives, both in the UK and overseas. Mark was a Director at the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) and has also been a school leader, an…
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6 ways that the CPD landscape is seriously changing
Teacher development in England is undergoing rapid change. I’ve yet to find a school or CPD provider that is doing things the same way that they were five years ago and it’s never been a more challenging marketplace to work in. On the 20th of…
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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 Future of Teacher Development: 3 Things to Know about the Government’s New Thinking
Today (Friday 15th), the Department for Education has published a consultation on the future of teacher development. This comes after yesterday’s launch of Justine Greening’s plan for improving social mobility. Taken together, there’s a lot of focus on the development of teachers and teaching. Here’s…
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David Weston Q&A with Professor Alex Hill and Dr Ben Laker
TDT’s Chief Executive, David Weston, caught up with Professor Alex Hill and Dr Ben Laker, authors of a new article in Harvard Business Review on the most effective school leaders. Alex and Ben’s new article follows significant media attention from their previous papers. DW: Alex, Ben, you’ve…
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National Audit Office Report on Developing and Retaining the Teacher Workforce
Today (Tuesday 12th September 2017), the National Audit Office has released a report on Developing and Retaining the Teacher Workforce. It has produced a helpful infographic, reproduced below. [Source: https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Infographic-Retaining-and-developing-the-teaching-workforce.pdf] Commenting on today’s report, TDT’s Chief Executive David Weston and former Chair of the DfE…
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Toxic Schools and how to avoid running them – ResearchED, 9th Sept 2017
Here’s the slides from David Weston’s talk at ResearchED London, held at Chobham Academy on Saturday, 9th September, 2017. “Remember, the key thing to remember today is not to let all the ideas come home from the conference and start rotting away in your notebook”….
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Appreciative Inquiry in Coaching
Appreciative Inquiry in Coaching How Tony Nicholls & Kathryn Morgan used this reflective model to improve one school’s professional learning culture This guest post sets out to explore the impact that the principles of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) can have in one-on-one coaching relationships and subsequently…
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Why should schools be engaging parents?
A few years ago, I was talking to a boy in year 7. He was already in a programme to prevent him from being excluded, and he was telling me that he was trying hard to behave well. I asked if his teachers were pleased…