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...
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...
