by Michelle | 19 Mar, 2024 | 2024, CPD, Lead Provider, NPQs, Ofsted, Outstanding, Professional Development
Teacher Development Trust (TDT) is England’s national charity for effective professional development in schools, colleges and early years settings. We help give leaders the clarity, confidence and capacity to build and lead cultures of expertise in schools and...
by Faye Lawlor | 29 Feb, 2024 | 2024, CPD, Expert Group, Leadership, Opinion, Press Release, Research, Teacher wellbeing
Read full report The teaching profession is up against it at the moment. It faces challenges around recruitment and retention, restrictions on funding, and too often feels a lack of trust in its ability to educate children and young people. As an organisation, we know...
by Hazel Jeffs | 15 Nov, 2024 | 2024, Expertise
Guest post from Shane Leaning, an international school organisational coach and podcaster learning with teachers and leaders across the globe. It’s been a year of change. Change in politics, changes in social discourse, changes in staffing in our school and dare...
by Hazel Jeffs | 22 Oct, 2024 | 2024, Events
A new annual event for the education sector We are delighted to announce that next April will see the delivery of the inaugural David Monis-Weston lecture. This annual lecture will see the Teacher Development Trust invite the most exciting and challenging thinkers...
by Gareth Conyard | 7 Oct, 2024 | 2024, Media, News, NPQs, Press Release
In his seminal book of the same name, Simon Sinek exhorts us all to ‘start with why’ – to understand your purpose, your reason for existing – before you decide anything else. Perhaps inevitably, with the change in government, a change in leadership here...
by Hazel Jeffs | 26 Sep, 2024 | 2024, CPD, Teachers
After coming across TDT in her first year as a Deputy Headteacher, Collette was empowered to make a positive impact at her school through her learnings on the CPD Leadership course. Before the Course Collette Wade had recently started her role as the deputy head of...
by Ariana Wells | 27 Aug, 2024 | 2023, NPQLL
Do you have responsibility for whole-school literacy? Or you may aspire to be a senior leader and have whole-school responsibilities. Perhaps you’re passionate about literacy but not leading on it just yet. TDT’s Partnerships and Communications Manager, Ariana...
by Ariana Wells | 15 Aug, 2024 | 2024, Early Years Education, NPQEYL, Professional Development, Uncategorized
In the second part of this blog, reflecting on the importance of the first five years, Mandy Cuttler, Head of Pedagogy, Learning and Development, London Early Years Foundation (LEYF)/London Institute of Early Years shares how high quality CPD leadership in Early Years...
by Ariana Wells | 12 Aug, 2024 | 2024, Early Years Education, Professional Development, Uncategorized
High-quality professional development to support children in their first five years. In the first part of this blog, Hannah Tyreman, Curriculum Designer at Teacher Development Trust, shares how CPD in EYFS can inform the experiences in the first five years of a...
by Ariana Wells | 1 Aug, 2024 | 2024, AI, Events
Louise Worgan, Curriculum Designer at TDT, updates on her involvement in the exciting development and testing of Teacherverse.ai. The Teacherverse is an AI-powered training tool that hones teachers’ skills through immersive, role-playing scenarios. AI is certainly a...
by Ariana Wells | 25 Jun, 2024 | 2024, Book launch, Expertise
In this blog, our CEO, Gareth Conyard, talks about what we can expect in his co-authored new book on how to make better education policy. Before joining the Teacher Development Trust, I was privileged to be a civil servant at the Department for Education for nearly...
by TDT Admin | 7 Jun, 2024 | 2024, CPD, Data, Research
The latest data analysis from SchoolDash is published today and it shows a challenging picture in terms of spend on professional development by schools in England. Coming in the midst of a General Election campaign – in which the idea of an entitlement to...
