May 2013 Archives - Teacher Development Trust

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In this blog Tessa Matthews questions why schools are still using and promoting out of date CPD.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...

Overcoming the ok plateau: how to become an excellent teacher

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

Alex Quigley is a Subject Leader of English at Huntington Secondary School in York. He has taught for ten years and blogs on most topics in education at here. This article first appeared here and explores teachers on ‘autopilot’ and how teachers can...

CPD – How not to do it

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

Andrew Day, the CPD Director of The Philosophy Foundation, discusses what does and doesn’t make effective CPD. This is one of the articles in the National Teacher Enquiry Network May Half Term Newsletter (sign up here). I’d like to start with a question: How can...

Every Child Counts Approach to Professional Development

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

Every Child Counts aims to help schools to raise achievement of children who have fallen behind in mathematics and raise standards for all children. Every Child Counts offers schools two powerful approaches to intervention teaching: Numbers Count and 1stClass@Number....