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Build collaboration within your teams using this 90 minute, self-paced module.
The Ofsted framework now has a stand-alone section that assesses the quality of your school’s ‘professional learning and expertise’. Under the previous framework, CPD was not inspected in its own right, though it was touched upon in the leadership and management section. Now though, inspectors coming to your school will assess whether or not you are meeting this requirement. They’ll want to see that leaders ensure that professional learning draws on the best available evidence and the effective practice of others
But spreading out expertise so that more teachers have access to it doesn’t just satisfy inspectors. Moving away from a reliance on ‘star teachers’ means that you can surface hidden pockets of expertise, allowing bright spots across the workforce to shine. A rising tide lifts all boards.
In this module, you’ll work through how to move from superficial sharing, to diagnosing the culture issues that underpin your challenges, and implement structured models to help you do things differently.
At the Teacher Development Trust, we’ve had over a decade of experience working with over 500 schools, supporting teachers and leaders to improve their confidence, skills and expertise in professional development. We help leaders invest their CPD resources wisely.
In a 90 minute session designed to fit into PPA time, we’ll give you the basic tools to be able to build your own coherent CPD plan through:
Once you register for our CPD hub and purchase the module, you can work through it at your own pace. The complete module takes 90 minutes and is designed to fit into PPA time, but you can pause and return whenever it suits you. You’ll have access to your progress and can download your certificate when you finish. Many leaders study it alongside their leadership team or use it to prepare for governance conversations about professional learning.
Any school leader with responsibility for professional development or teaching and learning. You could be a headteacher, senior leader, middle leader, or professional development lead.
Trust improvement leads and directors of education, if you’re working across multiple schools and trying to build consistent collaborative cultures.
This module provides foundational thinking. It works on its own, but also works well as preparation for deeper work. Many leaders use it alongside Module 1 or Module 2 because expertise-sharing only works when there’s psychological safety and a clear sense of direction.
Built on Experience
We’re focused on one thing: helping school leaders understand their CPD deeply and invest wisely in what actually works.
We believe in partnership. We believe in evidence. We believe in the humility to keep learning and adapt. We’ve worked with schools and we understand the complexity and the constraints. We’re not external consultants parachuting in with a template. We’re partners who know what it takes to actually change practice.
When leaders do this work well, when they understand their CPD and invest strategically in what works, schools transform. That’s what drives us.
All Online Learning modules are intended for individual rather than cross-school or trust use. Any certificates of completion will be in the name of the Hub account holder.
The Teacher Development Trust’s insights on what makes great CPD are informed through our close work with education research, as well as our experience of working with over 500 schools on building stronger professional development programmes through the 7 Domains of People-Powered School Improvement
Each module is also shaped by the influential practice of school leaders working in education today, as seen in our case studies.
Join us to explore how leaders can tap into the power of great CPD and create cultures of professional growth that inspire joy and agency.
A one-day collaborative conference bringing together anyone interested in making staff development in education count.