CPD Resources

As you welcome back your staff and students you are probably thinking of ways to keep morale high as senior leadership teams know only too well that happier teachers often means happier children.

To spur this forward, adopting our ten morale boosters will help boost staff performance creating even better working opportunities and providing a platform that nurtures skills and talent every day!

1. 1. Prepare a handwritten ‘thank you’ note acknowledging someone’s great work.
   2. Organise well-being weeks throughout the term with no meetings and encourage staff to go home earlier.
   3. Organise a ‘Teach/Meet’ afte

1. Of course it’s difficult. School is here to make our brains stronger/grow!
2. I admire your persistence and your hard work is admirable. It will certainly pay off.
3. Let me explain it another way using different words.

One of the greatest influences on student outcomes is by improving both teaching and learning through effective teacher CPD. Yet few schools evaluate its impact adequately, or even at all. Unless you do so, it is difficult to know to what extent a CPD programme has benefited a school or offered value for money.

The following initial framework will help you go about evaluating CPD:

1. Decide what you want from a CPD programme. If you don’t have set expectations for changing teacher behaviour or other headline objectives, you will never know how successful the programme has been.
2. Determine the tools and crit

One of the greatest influences on student outcomes is by improving both teaching and learning through effective teacher CPD. Yet few schools evaluate its impact adequately, or even at all. Unless you do so, it is difficult to know to what extent a CPD programme has benefited a school or offered value for money.

The following initial framework will help you go about evaluating CPD:

1. Decide what you want from a CPD programme. If you don’t have set expectations for changing teacher behaviour or other headline objectives, you will never know how successful the programme has been.
2. Determine the tools and crit

Practical Strategies For Learners with Dyslexia

According to the State of Education Survey Report 2016, 40% of school governors find preparing for an inspection challenging. So here are five ways in which you can make yourself inspection-ready.

A new draft version of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) has been published. I have summarised the key changes (set out in Annex H) below: Download Paper

  On 16 Oct 2019

Creating challenge in classrooms is an essential ingredient of any good learning environment. It takes learners out of their comfort zone and into the unknown by generating a tension that does not overwhelm nor interrupt learning. So, when purposefully done, it enhances and deepens learning by requiring students to overcome obstacles, resolve conundrums and answer their own questions through carefully constructed scenarios.