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How to deliver CPD on tackling off-task behaviour in lesson

Low-level disruption can greatly impede students’ progress. Josephine Smith outlines a CPD session to help teachers in your school improve their behaviour management

Good CPD according to Ofsted

A new report from Ofsted appears to confirm what many teachers will already be well aware of: professional development which is owned by teachers is important for performance at work. But what else do we need to be aware of?

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

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

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

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

Keeping a professional learning journal

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

Avoiding pupil misconceptions in primary science

The targeting of misconceptions is seen as a critical skill in the teaching of science, but how can these pupil misconceptions be effectively targeted? Hazel Bennett offers some essential advice to teachers of science

Teaching spelling: how to

The importance of teaching spelling, and its affect on literacy, was highlighted in recent interim reports from the Primary Review; so what should schools be doing to teach the core skill of spelling? Debbie Hepplewhite looks at current thinking, requirements and problems

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

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

Your ideal learning culture: following it through

Following on from her initial look at how to create an ideal learning culture at your school, Elizabeth Holmes looks deeper at how to follow it through and align a sustainable learning culture with your school's other priorities

A career's worth of CPD

What CPD needs will a teacher have throughout the six distinct stages of their career? This article offers research summaries on the subject

Your ideal learning culture: turning blue sky dreams into reality

A supportive learning culture among staff, mutual respect and motivational development for everyone! That needn't be just a 'blue sky' dream. In the first of a CPD Week series, Elizabeth Holmes explains how to start creating a sustainable learning culture in your school

CPD: a breakdown

What is the most effective form of CPD? What effect will workforce remodelling and the new Master's have? Nansi Ellis of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers gives her views

Improving school performance management can improve learning

Linking performance management to professional development (CPD) can immediately improve specific areas of learning across the school, Carol Taylor advises CPD leaders

How to be a 21st century CPD leader

A network of CPD leaders visited schools in the US to explore good practice in leadership of professional development. Barbara Dutton, coordinator of the network in Warrington, reports on what the group learned, and describes how they've been putting it into action

Motivation: the key to staff excellence

Motivation helps educational staff to develop both personally and professionally, and should be a focus for all CPD leaders. But what does it mean to foster school-wide motivation?

Embedding SEAL for positive effect

After previously looking at the benefits of whole-school engagement in SEAL, CPD Week now provides starting points for embedding SEAL through CPD. We also provide a separate sheet of CPD ideas for SEAL development in your school

Conference report: A culture change for professional development

We are in a season of culture change and transformation for CPD, according to speakers at the 4th annual CPD Update conference for professional development leaders

Staff training material for child protection issues

This resource offers a number of theoretical case studies where child protection could be a concern, intended for staff discussion. It then follows each scenario with suggested points for consideration

Promoting good early years behaviour

Good behaviour in early years is something that practitioners can and should promote, says Juliet Neill-Hall, who offers some strategies on 'how to'

Masters in teaching and learning (MTL): what you need to know

Flexibility in postgraduate professional development is allowing increasing numbers of teachers to take a masters in teaching and learning, raising the status of the profession as a whole. This CPD Week looks at some of the current themes in M level study and ways in which schools can encourage staff to find out more

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