by admin | 23 Aug, 2017 | Leadership, Opinion, Resources
Recently, the need and desire to rethink traditional performance management systems has risen considerably. Employees, managers, and HR departments came to see performance management as a rule-based, bureaucratic process, conducted in a tick-the-box fashion. You might...
by admin | 28 Mar, 2017 | Leadership, Press Release
MEDIA STATEMENT: Education Select Committee recommendations for teacher recruitment and retention. February 21st 2017 Today, the Education Select Committee published the findings of its teacher recruitment and retention inquiry. The findings revealed that to boost...
by admin | 29 Nov, 2016 | Advice, Leadership, Opinion, Teachers, Uncategorized
Appreciative Inquiry in Coaching How Tony Nicholls & Kathryn Morgan used this reflective model to improve one school’s professional learning culture This guest post sets out to explore the impact that the principles of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) can have in...
by david.weston | 24 Jul, 2014 | Leadership, Teachers
At the Teacher Development Trust we have an explicit mission to promote powerful professional development that helps students succeed and teachers thrive. Sometimes there are examples of extraordinarily successful schools, especially in areas of greater deprivation,...
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...
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...
