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TDT September Newsletter

by admin | 5 Sep, 2013 | Advice, News, Newsletter, Opinion, September 2013

Welcome to the Teacher Development Trust September Newsletter. In this issue: Seven Deadly Sins of Teacher Development, David Weston, Chief Executive of Teacher Development Trust explores the good and the bad of professional development. This much I know...

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In this blog Tessa Matthews questions why schools are still using and promoting out of date CPD.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

Does more teaching mean higher achievement?

by admin | 18 Apr, 2013 | Opinion, Research

The Telegraph reports that Michael Gove has declared that he wants to cut the length of school holidays in order to improve standards. I’ve plotted a graph of the number of hours that teachers spend teaching per year (from OECD TALIS data) against their average...

The dangers of performance-related pay

by admin | 17 Apr, 2013 | Opinion

A personal blog by our Chief Executive. Why are we motivated to teach? Research by Barmby for Durham University in 2006 interviewed 200 teachers and noted the top 10 reasons given for entering the profession (some gave more than one): Always had it in mind – 40%...

Point of view: We should have less cross-curricular CPD

by admin | 24 Mar, 2013 | March 2013, Newsletter, Opinion

In this head-to-head, Tessa Matthews argues that CPD isn’t sufficiently subject-specific. You can read Alex Quigley’s counter-argument in defence of cross-curricular work here. This is one of the articles in our National Teacher Enquiry Network Easter 2013...

Point of view: in defence of cross-curricular CPD

by admin | 24 Mar, 2013 | March 2013, Newsletter, Opinion

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 http://huntingenglish.wordpress.com/. This article is a counter-argument to Tessa Matthews’ blog on why we...

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