2024 Archives

What’s the big AI-dea?!

by Ariana Wells | 1 Aug, 2024 | 2024, AI, Events

Louise Worgan, Curriculum Designer at TDT, updates on her involvement in the exciting development and testing of Teacherverse.ai. The Teacherverse is an AI-powered training tool that hones teachers’ skills through immersive, role-playing scenarios. AI is certainly a...

Improving Education Policy Together

by Ariana Wells | 25 Jun, 2024 | 2024, Book launch, Expertise

In this blog, our CEO, Gareth Conyard, talks about what we can expect in his co-authored new book on how to make better education policy. Before joining the Teacher Development Trust, I was privileged to be a civil servant at the Department for Education for nearly...

SchoolDash data shows that spend on CPD is flatlining – why does that matter?

by TDT Admin | 7 Jun, 2024 | 2024, CPD, Data, Research

The latest data analysis from SchoolDash is published today and it shows a challenging picture in terms of spend on professional development by schools in England. Coming in the midst of a General Election campaign – in which the idea of an entitlement to...

Smart, Heart, Humble: Developing meaningful education policy during a General Election campaign

by Gareth Conyard | 23 May, 2024 | 2024, News, Opinion

So the starting gun has been fired and the race has begun. The next six weeks will see leading figures in all parties try to set out their stalls and we should expect that education will be a major area of policy to be discussed. What should we hope for? It is...

TDT Response to the Education Select Committee Report: Teacher Recruitment, Training & Retention

by Gareth Conyard | 17 May, 2024 | 2024, News, Teacher recruitment, Teacher retention

TDT welcomes today’s publication of the Education Select Committee report on teacher recruitment and retention. Alongside Labour’s announcement yesterday to increase the number of teachers entering the profession, we are glad to see politicians of all political...

Using AI: Being Smart, Heart, and Humble

by Ariana Wells | 6 May, 2024 | 2024, AI, Guest Post, Technology, Uncategorized

In out latest guest blog, Mike Goves of the Oxfordshire Teaching School Hub & River Learning Trust begins to explore the mechanisms and research behind artificial intelligence models and highlights how the TDT values can support us in being critically selective of...