by david.weston | 18 Sep, 2020 | Uncategorized
David Weston, TDT’s CEO, reflects on key principles for Trust leaders when thinking about leading for effective teaching quality and collaboration across their schools. Leading great teaching across a trust is a series of puzzles: How do we create a shared...
by david.weston | 24 Jul, 2020 | News
The Teacher Development Trust is delighted to announce that Kathryn Morgan (@KLMorgan_2) has joined us as our new Expert Adviser. In this blog, she shares some reflections on why the leadership of professional learning is so vital for education. My new role as Expert...
by Maria Cunningham | 8 Jun, 2020 | Advice, Teachers
Supporting Newly Qualified Teachers through the Recruitment Challenge The NFER’s Teacher Labour Market in England Annual Report 2020, published last Friday and based on data collected prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, shows that schools continue to face...
by Maria Cunningham | 22 May, 2020 | Advice, Teachers
Tackling the Recruitment Challenge Research compiled by SchoolDash and TeacherTapp shows a significant decline in teacher job mobility during the coronavirus pandemic, with a 38% drop in teacher recruitment advertisements on school websites between mid-May and the end...
by Michelle Barker | 6 May, 2020 | Uncategorized
What Makes Effective CPD? Maria Cunningham, Head of Education, and Ben Solly, Headteacher, talk to Pete Henshaw of Sec-Ed in this recent Podcast.
by David Weston | 1 May, 2020 | Uncategorized
The obligatory phrase ‘How are you?’ is, more often than not, the opening line of many of our conversations. Whether we are talking to a family member, friend, colleague or even a stranger, we tend to ask some variation of this question. But how often do we get a...
by David Weston | 23 Mar, 2020 | Uncategorized
Key ideas [bctt tweet=”Don’t overload parents: structured timetables and too many demands may be unhelpful as parents are trying to balance things at home”]. Some parents may be really struggling to adapt to the new situation, it could be very...
by David Weston | 19 Mar, 2020 | Uncategorized
Some really surprising startling trends have appeared in this year’s analysis of schools’ spending on staff development. Carried out as a collaboration between SchoolDash and the Teacher Development Trust, the headline is that [bctt tweet=”Teachers...
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...
