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 | 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...
by Gareth Conyard | 23 May, 2024 | 2024, News, Opinion
So the starting gun has been fired and the race has begun. The next six weeks will see leading figures in all parties try to set out their stalls and we should expect that education will be a major area of policy to be discussed. What should we hope for? It is...
by Gareth Conyard | 17 May, 2024 | 2024, News, Teacher recruitment, Teacher retention
TDT welcomes today’s publication of the Education Select Committee report on teacher recruitment and retention. Alongside Labour’s announcement yesterday to increase the number of teachers entering the profession, we are glad to see politicians of all political...
by Ariana Wells | 6 May, 2024 | 2024, AI, Guest Post, Technology, Uncategorized
In out latest guest blog, Mike Goves of the Oxfordshire Teaching School Hub & River Learning Trust begins to explore the mechanisms and research behind artificial intelligence models and highlights how the TDT values can support us in being critically selective of...
