Continuing Professional Development

Taking the lead in professional development to support SEN

All SENCOs must take the lead in their colleague’s professional development in relation to special needs – in this issue we focus on evaluating how well you manage this, and offer a helpsheet to assist in managing the CPD of teaching/support assistants

How to evaluate the impact of CPD

Evaluating the impact of professional learning is a significant dimension to CPD coordination, yet it is often overlooked. This week we offer some practical strategies for attempting impact evaluation to help you focus your resources more effectively.

Staff training in child protection

This is the first issue of a new series of e-bulletins on child protection. They are designed to be practical and accessible and to help you in your role of designated person for child protection within school

Personalised learning for all staff in schools

What can we learn from this personalised learning which might usefully be applied to professional learning in schools? This issue we identify precisely what can be transferred from personalised learning to enhance CPD in your school

Ensuring support staff are included in CPD

CPD Week explores ways of ensuring that support staff are included in approaches to CPD so that no-one has the notion that they are on the bottom of the professional learning heap.

How to be a reflective early years practitioner

All early years practitioners have a role to play in quality improvement by developing their personal and professional skills as reflective practitioners. Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton discuss what you can do

Is your school committed to lifelong learning?

This issue is about acknowledging that learning can take place at any time (ie not just when the learner is on a formal course), and gives tips on encouraging staff to develop a mindset that allows learning to take place on a daily basis

Does your school’s professional learning help to enhance its SEN provision?

Offers info on the legal requirements for CPD for SENCOs and advice on using CPD to improve SEN provision practised by other members of staff

Ensure the CPD in your school equips teachers to meet the decade ahead

This edition of CPD Week is about planning professional learning in order to navigate future challenges, with a particular focus on creativity

National training for new SENCOs: what will it cover?

With the roll-out of national training for new SENCOs under way, SENCO Week updates you on its learning outcomes

Reviewing what professional skills have been learned this term

This issue is about encouraging staff to review what they have learned during the Autumn term, in order to help embed this learning in their practice

Freeing up time for professional learning

This issue we explore some of the time management methods that might usefully support school staff in freeing up space for professional and personal learning

Sustainable CPD: 5th Annual CPD Update Conference

Sustainable CPD was the theme of last week’s fifth annual CPD Update national one-day conference in London. This issueI take a whistle-stop tour of the themes and topics that were the burning issues of the day

Putting community cohesion at the heart of CPD

Elizabeth Holmes explores ideas for putting community cohesion at the heart of all the professional learning that your school undertakes

Keeping a professional learning journal

This issue of CPD Week explores some of the possibilities open to school staff for keeping professional learning journals

Induction of NQTs

This CPD Week explores ways of viewing induction of NQTs more as a foundation for future professional and personal development than a hoop to be cleared

A new look for Ofsted inspection

Ofsted inspection has a brave new look for this season: quietly understated, with subtleties in shade and tone which are well worth examining closer

What will the National College's remit changes mean for CPD in schools?

Elizabeth Holmes speaks to Catherine Fitt, the National College’s strategic director for children’s services, to find out what their remit changes will mean for CPD in schools

Placing wellbeing at the heart of CPD

Elizabeth Holmes discusses the health and happiness of members of school staff, and why they are essential to a successful CPD programme

Spotlight on the CPD coordinator’s role

Take the opportunity of the new term to examine your role as CPD coordinator, including what your key professional development focus should be and how to enrich the role as a whole

Introducing the new teachers' code of conduct and practice

CPD Week speaks to the GTCE about the new code of conduct and practice for teachers

Introducing the MTL

Elizabeth Holmes discusses the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL), including why it was developed, differences to the current masters-level course and its benefits for teachers and schools

Reviewing the year at school

Elizabeth Holmes discusses the best way to reflect on your year at school and how to turn your experiences into positive changes in the future

CPD for governors

This issue we take a look at ways of bringing governors into the fold when it comes to CPD and improving professional skills

Professional learning for support staff

CPD Week examines how to make sure that all members of staff, particularly support staff, receive professional learning opportunities

CPD support for teacher's wellbeing and self-worth

Teachers' wellbeing and self-worth are of paramount importance if they are to nurture similar confidence in their pupils. Elizabeth Holmes discusses what steps can be taken to support this important area of CPD

Learning to listen to student voice: part 2

Elizabeth Holmes continues her focus on CPD aspects of student voice, in CPD Week

Learning to listen to student voice: part 1

Student voice is the subject of this CPD Week, as Elizabeth Holmes discusses the CPD preparation necessary behind making student voice work as a process

Professional learning for personalisation agenda

CPD Week discusses the latest professional thinking regarding the personalisation agenda and personalised learning, and how to encorporate this important issue into CPD

'Visions and Principles for Induction': a CPD perspective

Elizabeth Holmes examines ways in which the Children’s Workforce Network publication Visions and Principles for Induction can support induction in schools

Refresh your school's CPD: top tips

As we begin the final term of the school year, Elizabeth Holmes offers eight top tips to help CPD coordinators refresh their policy and give the professional learning at their school a boost

CPD trip: visiting NASA

Increase teacher motivation at your school by organising a CPD trip. Here, several participants recount one particularly worthwhile CPD visit, with one participant describing it as 'the most effective training I have had in over 20 years of teaching'

The future of CPD

What should the next step for your CPD policy be? Now that the central role of CPD is recognised in schools, Philippa Cordingley looks at how professional learning can progress even more in the future

How to make CPD integral to your whole school

Create a culture of CPD at your school using an approach based on CPD for all staff. Julia Upton gives advice on whole-school reviews, micro-skills — including tips on how to be an effective teacher — training for support staff and the development of networks

Collaborative professional enquiry in schools

How can participating in collaborative professional enquiry foster pupil learning and professional learning in teachers? Alison Fox from the University of Stirling and chartered teacher Jan Brophy describe how

Accessible professional development for teachers

How can your school become more open when it comes to CPD and professional learning, in terms of the access and sharing of ideas? CPD Week here includes five top tips on sharing CPD

SENCOs providing CPD for colleagues: auditing priorities + Helpsheet 20

What are your colleagues' priorities for CPD in terms of SEN and inclusion? Linda Evans discusses how SENCOs can help them in this area

The new GTCE code of conduct and practice

Mark Blois explores plans for a new code of conduct for the General Teaching Council for England GTCE

Helping teachers cope with stress

Is personal emotional wellbeing a priority concern for you and the teachers at your school? Identifying and controlling negative stress is an important part of continuous professional development (CPD), as Elizabeth Holmes explains

Assessment for Learning

Developing effective AfL: from a whole-school strategy to consistent classroom practice

Date: Wed 24th June 2009

Cost-saving approach to CPD

Elizabeth Holmes discusses a finanically sustainable approach to teachers' continuing professional development

Is a six-month training course sufficient preparation for full-time teaching?

Academy schools: the ultimate career move for school business managers?

The role of finance director at an academy school is potentially a very attractive career opportunity for ambitious school business managers and bursars. Ruth Bradbury explains why

Evaluating the impact of CPD

The evaluation of CPD and its impact is one of the most difficult tasks for CPD leaders. Sue Kelly demonstrates some far more interesting ways of evaluating CPD than simply handing out a questionnaire

Becoming an effective assistant headteacher

What does it take to become an effective assistant headteacher? Dr Ray Chatwin looks at how to manage the teacher transition from middle leader to assistant headteacher

CPD in the classroom - the Teachers Learning Academy (TLA)

The Teacher Learning Academy (TLA), led by the GTCE, is achieving great things in the world of continuing professional development (CPD), according to a recent independent report commissioned by nfer. CPD Week talks to the GTCE’s Sara Morgan, Head of Professional Learning, about the report’s findings

Research into G&T has CPD benefits

Action research with G&T pupils didn't produce the results Peter Leyland expected, but he found it had great CPD benefits

CPD learning networks: Lambeth and Kosovo

School can greatly benefit in terms of CPD from links between a network of schools; in this case one in Lambeth and another in Kosovo, which have brought CPD benefits to teachers in both areas. Elizabeth Gowing explains

CPD training for G&T coordinators

The continuing professional development training implications of the gifted and talented (G&T) agenda are highlighted here by Sophie Craven and Brin Best, explaining all that CPD has to offer in the area of G&T