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No More Grades?

by David Weston | 23 Feb, 2014 | Uncategorized

A guest post for the Teacher Development Trust by Micon Metcalfe (@miconm), Director of Finance and Business at Dunraven School. She is a Specialist Leader of Education. There’s been a really interesting debate on twitter & in the blogosphere this week...

The Coherence of Scottish Education

by David Weston | 18 Feb, 2014 | Opinion, Teachers

The Scottish education system has sometimes been criticised as being too consensual and lacking in urgency. However, coming from the aggressively partisan, political and relentlessly changing world of English education there were elements of today’s visit to the...

GoodCPDGuide January Newsletter

by admin | 21 Jan, 2014 | Uncategorized

Welcome to the third instalment of the GoodCPDGuide Newsletter! News January’s news from the GoodCPDGuide: The GoodCPDGuide Quality Assurance audit continues. The Quality Assurance audit is a process we use to make sure listings on the GoodCPDGuide conform to minimum...

Beyond lesson observation grades?

by admin | 19 Jan, 2014 | Advice, Leadership, Teachers

Mary Myatt is a lead inspector for Ofsted, adviser, writer and trainer who blogs at MaryMyatt.com. She kindly agreed to write this blog for us after appearing at a panel at a joint Teach First & Teacher Development Trust event on Lesson Observation. You can see...

Teacher re-licensing: pros and cons

by admin | 11 Jan, 2014 | Opinion, Teachers

The latest proposal by Tristram Hunt, that all teachers should be required to relicense every 5 to 10 years, is an interesting one. I could happily blog about people’s reactions which have themselves been fascinating, but I’d like to look at the idea...

Why evidence will never overcome disagreement in education

by admin | 1 Jan, 2014 | Leadership, Psychology, Teachers

I take real pleasure in watching people engage in debate around meaty questions in education. Should we be promoting independent, child-led learning or should we be building the scaffolds of knowledge, passed down the generations from teacher to student? Should we...

GoodCPDGuide December Newsletter

by admin | 20 Dec, 2013 | Uncategorized

We’re very glad to share the second installment of the GoodCPDGuide Newsletter! News This month’s news from the GoodCPDGuide: GoodCPDGuide providers recently took part in market research done by the Teacher Development Trust and other organisations on...

TDT December Newsletter

by admin | 13 Dec, 2013 | December 2013, Newsletter

Welcome to the Teacher Development Trust December Newsletter. In this issue: 10 Things You Should Know About PISA, Sam Freedman, director of research at Teach First and TDT Trustee, breaks down the most important facts and findings from PISA 2012. The PISA furore:...

4 ways to become an outstanding NQT

by admin | 13 Dec, 2013 | Advice, December 2013, Teachers

David Weston is the Chief Executive of the Teacher Development Trust. This piece originally appeared in November’s Sec Ed NQT Special. This is one of the articles in the TDT December Newsletter (sign up here). To become an outstanding teacher you need to...

10 Things You Should Know About PISA

by admin | 13 Dec, 2013 | Advice, December 2013, News, Newsletter, Research

Sam Freedman is director of research at Teach First and a former adviser to the Secretary of State for Education. This piece originally appeared on his blog. Sam also wrote this piece on PISA for the Financial Times. This is one of the articles in the TDT December...

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