Stress Awareness Month 2022: Personal Reflections
April is ‘Stress Awareness Month’. I have never fully accepted the virtue of designating a month (or a week or a day) to a specific theme. Or rather, I get the idea is to raise awareness, but the risk is that it becomes a tokenistic thing, a way of looking...
A personal reflection: diary from inside a TDT NPQLT
Sarah Dunsby, Head of Geography at Bushey Meads School, embarked on her TDT NPQLT this autumn with our delivery partner Shared Learning Trust. Here, she shares with us her diary recording her experiences and reflections so far; and how the TDT NPQLT curriculum and...
My NPQ for Leading Teaching (NPQLT) experience so far…
Sarah Dunsby, Head of Geography at Bushey Meads School tells TDT about her experiences on our National Professional Qualification for Leading Teaching (NPQLT) so far. Why did you choose to take a National Professional Qualification with the Teacher Development Trust?...
CPD: Building a culture of collaboration that sticks
When it comes to professional development, how can school leaders build meaningful and impactful collaboration? TDT Expert Advisor, Concettina Johnson offers some questions for reflection, examples and tips. Teachers deserve more. More access, more time, more...
Performance Management Reimagined: A modern approach to teacher performance management webinar video
Far too many teachers and leaders are dissatisfied with performance management. Hear from an expert panel to help overhaul your approach in this free hour long webinar video hosted by TDT’s new Head of Education, Gareth Conyard with Director and Co-Founder...
Benchmarking the 4 things that matter for teachers’ working environments
Launching his new research-based diagnostic tool, exclusively for TDT member schools, Dr Sam Sims explores new research about the four aspects of working environments that make a particular difference to job satisfaction and retention. TDT’s Culture of Improvement...
Ejike Agubor joins TDT as Head of Partnerships
We’re delighted to announce that Ejike Agubor will be joining the Teacher Development Trust as Head of Partnerships from late January 2022. In this blog, he reflects on the way he’s seen schools react to the unprecedented challenges of the last two years....
National Professional Qualification for Leading Teaching (NPQLT)
State-funded schools in England can access our fully government-funded NPQs (National Professional Qualifications) to help staff develop and to build internal capacity for improvement. In particular, our new NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture is fully scholarship...