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TDT Network 5th Birthday!
“We need more people who are ‘clueful’ at helping teachers.” So said Dr Ben Goldacre in the Houses of Parliament when, five years ago this week, the Teacher Development Trust launched our schools Network (known then as NTEN, the National Teacher Enquiry Network). Our aims…
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Dr Gary Jones: Teachers’ perceptions of collaborative inquiry
As a school leader, one of the main challenges that that you will face in trying to establish a research and evidence-based culture within your school will be to try and provide opportunities for teachers and other colleagues to engage in collaborative inquiry (Brown, 2015). So…
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Navigating the Stormy Sea of CPD in Schools
It is perhaps no surprise that schools are finding it challenging to find the very best professional development opportunities for their staff. Within an increasingly fractured system, schools have to navigate independent providers, local authorities, teaching schools, multi-academy trusts and national organisations. How do schools…
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DfE CPD Standard
“Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better.” Dylan Wiliam In July 2016, the Department for Education published a new Standard for Teachers’ Professional Development for all schools in England. The Standard sets out a…
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Where are the Mental Health First Aiders in our Schools?
Dr Helen Pote is a Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years experience in the NHS and schools helping young people with their mental health problems and supporting teachers to do the same. She has worked for over 15 years as an academic and researcher at the Department…
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Is reading a virus?
Dr Jessie Ricketts (@ricketts_lara) In 1998, Uta Frith argued that reading, a cultural invention, is a ‘virus’ that ‘infects speech processing’. So how does learning to read impact on oral vocabulary learning? Infants begin by learning spoken labels (phonological forms) and to associate them with…