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Growing and Improving your CPD Business – GoodCPDGuide Event

by admin | 15 Jul, 2013 | Uncategorized

We’re excited to announce our first GoodCPDGuide event! ‘Growing and Improving your CPD Business’. This event is aimed at CPD providers who work closely with Schools and Teachers to deliver effective Professional Development training in various areas. The event is...

NTEN Parliamentary Launch: 11th July

by admin | 12 Jul, 2013 | Press Release

NATIONAL TEACHER ENQUIRY NETWORK LAUNCHED TO PROMOTE OUTSTANDING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REDUCE EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE The Teacher Development Trust has today (11th July 2013) launched its National Teacher Enquiry Network (NTEN) at the House of...

TDT Comments on the Select Committee report on Governance – 4th July.

by admin | 4 Jul, 2013 | Media

Governors urged to consider better quality training The Teacher Development Trust, a charity founded by teachers to improve the educational outcomes for children by ensuring they experience the most effective learning, has today (4th July 2013) welcomed the Education...

Evidence in to action – winning hearts and minds

by admin | 3 Jul, 2013 | Advice, Research

Much has been made of the need for teachers and politicians to make greater use of evidence when practising in the classroom and making policy. Oddly, both sides of almost every debate manage to pull some evidence out of their hat and then lambast the other side for...

Media Release: 3rd July

by admin | 3 Jul, 2013 | Uncategorized

EDUCATION LEADERS URGED TO IMPROVE TEACHER ENGAGEMENT LEVELS OR FACE CRISIS The Teacher Development Trust, a charity founded by teachers to improve the educational outcomes for children by ensuring they experience the most effective learning, has today (3rd July...

Narrowing the gap: Pupil Premium and CPD

by admin | 30 Jun, 2013 | Advice

This blog follows my talk given at the Westminster Briefing ‘Narrowing the Gap’ event in Leeds on Thursday 27th June, 2013. I will be delivering a similar talk at the Westminster Briefing London event on Tuesday 9th July. When narrowing the attainment gap,...

Creating a research-engaged education system (2nd of 2)

by admin | 4 Jun, 2013 | Research

In the first part of this blog I set out the issues around creating a research-engaged teaching profession and looked at the challenges around aspirations, expectations, knowledge and skill, and focus. In this second part I will examine some more of the challenges and...

NTEN May Half Term Newsletter

by admin | 3 Jun, 2013 | May 2013, Newsletter

Welcome to the National Teacher Enquiry Network May Half Term newsletter. In this issue: Join David Weston of the Teacher Development Trust leading Whole Education’s CPD webinar on CPD in England: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly on Thursday June 6th from 5-6pm....

Teachers as Learners: Implementing the Common Core

by admin | 3 Jun, 2013 | Advice, May 2013, Newsletter, Teachers

Here, Annie Murphy Paul explains the challenges that teachers face as learners and what research shows can be done to overcome them. This was addressed to a group of teachers and principals from the Common Core Lab of the New York City Department of Education. The lab...

Why are we still talking about learning styles?

by admin | 3 Jun, 2013 | May 2013, Newsletter, Opinion, Teachers

In this blog Tessa Matthews questions why schools are still using and promoting out of date CPD. This is one of the articles in the National Teacher Enquiry Network May Half Term Newsletter (sign up here). Tessa is an English Teacher in a UK secondary school. This...

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