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...
by Michelle Barker | 31 Jan, 2020 | 2020
TDT School Programme Leader, Michelle Barker, surveys NFER’s new research and draws out some opportunities for positive change in schools. CPD and Teacher Autonomy Pressures on existing teachers have long been at boiling point. Analysis from the National Foundation...
by admin | 12 Dec, 2019 | Research
David Weston is Chief Executive of the Teacher Development and Chair of the Department for Education (England)’s CPD Expert Group. In a notable recent systematic review Filges et al. summarise their findings as “little evidence of the effectiveness of continuing...
by admin | 1 Nov, 2019 | Teachers
In her first blog as TDT’s new Head of Education, Maria Cunningham surveys the landscape of CPD policy. What the future holds for CPD… Future policy and research trends “What if we were to put as much effort into developing teachers as we did into...
by Bethan Hindley | 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...
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...
by admin | 29 May, 2019 | Uncategorized
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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...
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...
by david.weston | 22 Feb, 2019 | Providers, Uncategorized
The CPD landscape is shifting again and every CPD Provider needs to be ready. In this article, our CEO, David Weston, uses TDT analysis, our policy view and our work with hundreds of schools to predict six key pieces of intelligence that will affect every professional...
