Lowering teacher stress through CPD & teamwork

Lowering teacher stress through CPD & teamwork

Dr Sam Sims has just joined the Teacher Development Trust as our new Research Advisor. He writes for us here on some exclusive new research findings from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey. TDT’s Culture of Improvement working paper shows the...
Further falls in CPD Spending: 5 things to know

Further falls in CPD Spending: 5 things to know

Today (18th November, 2020) sees the publication of SchoolDash’s new analysis of patterns of school professional development expenditure, in collaboration with the Teacher Development Trust. Headline findings include these 5 key points: In 2019, reported...
What do teachers need to know?

What do teachers need to know?

A guest post for TDT by Pete Foster (@CurricTeamLead), Assistant Headteacher at Bridgwater College Academy, based on his series of blogs. If you could improve one aspect of your knowledge as a teacher, what would it be?  I’m guessing, given current...

Is there evidence for CPD?

David Weston is Chief Executive of the Teacher Development and Chair of the Department for Education (England)’s CPD Expert Group. In a notable recent systematic review Filges et al. summarise their findings as “little evidence of the effectiveness of continuing...