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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...

Reform Speech – “Value for money in education”

by admin | 27 Sep, 2012 | Media

Speech to Reform “Value for Money” event, 27th-Sep-2012 David Weston, Chief Executive, Teacher Development Trust In 2007, a team of researchers in New Zealand reported on a school intervention that led to pupils making two and a half years of progress in their writing...

TESpro article: The new theory of evolution

by admin | 23 Jul, 2012 | Advice, Media

TESpro article: The new theory of evolution In July 2013, Teacher Development Trust CEO David Weston wrote a piece in TESpro about The New Theory of Evolution in professional development and making CPD better. Find a scanned PDF here.

The Teacher Development Trust

by admin | 7 May, 2012 | Media

This article first appeared in Optimus Education’s CPD Update on the 27th of April, 2012. As the education world negotiates further changes and developments, responsibility for professional learning appears to have slipped through the net. But a new non-profit...

Teachers must be learners

by admin | 11 Apr, 2012 | Media

This article appears in the May edition of Education Investor magazine. Better schools will need better teachers. And that means better CPD, says David Weston. Research has repeatedly shown that the number one influence on the quality of student attainment isn’t...

How effective is the professional development undertaken by teachers?

by admin | 10 Apr, 2012 | Media

This article first appeared in the Guardian Teacher Blog on Monday 26th March 2012. Two hundred million pounds is a lot of money to spend every year. It’s the equivalent of five thousand experienced teachers, forty secondary schools, or half a million new...