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All change for CPD providers

by David Weston | 20 Feb, 2020 | Uncategorized

The environment for CPD providers has never looked more complex. With budget pressures, policy and accountability change, David Weston explores the big challenges for anyone providing training, consultancy and conferences for teachers and school leaders, ahead of the...

Engaging Parents as Partners

by Bethan | 2 Sep, 2019 | Uncategorized

How can schools build a powerful relationship with parents using strategic thinking about CPD? Parent-school engagement expert, Dr. Kathryn Weston, lays out some evidence-based ideas. Parents remain teachers’ most powerful allies when it comes to ensuring children are...

Collaborative curriculum design and professional growth

by David Weston | 13 Aug, 2019 | Uncategorized

In the run-up to TDT’s 16th October conference, Developing Currriculum and Teachers: Leading from the Middle, Beth Greville-Giddings explores an interesting study about how teacher teams can use curriculum design as a way to develop. Collaborative curriculum...

Five reasons to attend the TDT Annual Conference

by admin | 29 May, 2019 | Uncategorized

Without a doubt, the TDT Annual Conference is one of my favourite and most anticipated calendar dates of the year. Since 2013 when the Teacher Development Trust launched our Network; a community of schools dedicated to developing and striving towards world-class,...

Getting Better Teaching: Part 2 – the value of stability

by David Weston | 10 Mar, 2019 | Uncategorized

This is the second of a short series of blogs covering my talk from ResearchED Birmingham, from the 2nd of March, 2019. Part 1 covered the value of teacher experience. As we’ve seen in Part 1, teachers generally become more effective over time as they accumulate...

Getting Better Teaching: Part 1 – Teacher Experience

by David Weston | 2 Mar, 2019 | Uncategorized

Getting Better Teaching: Part 1 – Teacher Experience This is the first of a short series of blogs covering my talk from ResearchED Birmingham, from the 2nd of March, 2019. We have an increasing amount of evidence about how we can improve the quality of teaching...