TDT welcomes the Goldacre Report

The Teacher Development Trust welcomes today’s publication by the Department for Education of “Building Evidence in to Education”, a report by Dr Ben Goldacre. Commenting on the launch, TDT Chief Executive David Weston said: “Ben is absolutely...

Can an unqualified teacher make a great headteacher?

There was something of a furore yesterday when it was revealed that a new Free School is intending to hire an unqualified teacher to be the new Headteacher. The question everyone was asking was whether it is possible for such a person to make the school truly...

CPD for innovation

These are the slides from a talk given by TDT Chief Executive, David Weston, at the Education Innovation Conference in Manchester on Saturday 9th March, 2013. The session was around Initial and Ongoing training especially related to innovation, technology and ICT. The...

John Bangs joins TDT Trustee Board

We are delighted to welcome John Bangs who has kindly agreed to join the Teacher Development Trust’s board. John started his career as a teacher. He joined the National Union of Teachers (NUT) in 1990 as the officer responsible for special needs and for the...