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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.

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

Baby P: lessons to be learned

What can schools learn from the Baby P case? Jenni Whitehead examines the report on Haringey children’s services and gives advice on how to prepare for unannounced inspections

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

Community cohesion in schools

CPD Week offers ideas for making sure that community cohesion is understood and prioritised equally by all your members of school staff

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

Cost-saving approach to CPD

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

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

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 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

Professional support for staff who move schools

CPD Week looks at how professional learning might support staff goals and aspirations for moving onwards and upwards in their career

Evaluating staff development: maximising its use

In this issue of CPD Week, Elizabeth Holmes examines the role of evaluation of professional development in supporting other activities and ways of maximising its use

Workforce reform: giving support teams a voice

Development changes in your workforce which make flexible use of vital support staff teams will do much to encourage school improvement in general, believes Brian Rossiter, headteacher of Valley School in Worksop

Evaluating staff development: starting points

‘Doing’ learning is only one stage of the process. In order to know how useful it might be for us, we need to evaluate it. This ebulletin explores how to start thinking about the evaluation of professional learning

Examining the links between professional development and behaviour: part 2

Elizabeth Holmes looks further into the links between professional development and behaviour, focusing specifically on children with special educational needs and/or disabilities

Leadership themes to support the professional development offer

Clarity of leadership themes is an ambition we should strive for in our schools – in this case, with reference to CPD. Here Jane Golightly looks at two themes to start the discussion - the big picture within the school and outward-looking CPD for multi-agency working

Examining the links between professional development and behaviour: part 1

Sir Alan Steer's interim report on behaviour is the springboard for this week's focus: the links between professional development, teaching and learning, and behaviour

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