CPD Learning Session and TOC Deck (DRAFT)

Lessons for effective CPD - A Synthesis

World Bank - Ezequiel Molina

TPD programmes must be tailored to the needs of teachers, practical, focused on a specific area of improvement, ongoing and rewarding.

How do we get there?

• Tailor CPD to specific teacher needs and practical use
• Work backwards with the teacher behaviour you want: consider what teachers to instruction are most valuable and should be prioritized?
• CPD has to be continuous, on-going support, not stand alone sessions
• Provide teachers with critical steps: when teachers lack a particular skill or expertise, provide critical steps for them clearly (like a recipe)
• Practice, feedback and more practice: can teachers apply the content they are being taught in the classroom? Provide practical advice on how to implement recommendations in the classroom, reflect, and improve.
• Learn and adapt continuously: build in mechanisms for accessing CPD’s success, reflecting, and improving.

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Edtech Hub - Björn Haßler

• CPD must focus on teaching and learning practices that promote student learning outcomes
• Regular school-based, peer-facilitated teacher group meetings address the limitations of cascade models: these are based in in-school practice, are more equitable (inclusive of all teachers) more accessible, and builds resilience in the school.
• Practice-oriented cycles of school-based CPD can support teachers to improve their practice
• The school is the unit of transformation: a peer-facilitated model allows for improvement to occur at a school level, and creates a culture of peer-support
• Schools should take a whole-school approach to CPD focused on subject pedagogy: focus can be on applying core teaching skills to specific subject content
• Headteachers need to provide a clear vision and be accountable for school-based CPD
• The impact of CPD programmes depends on the content and the mode of delivery: video clips modeling skills and approaches, along with monitoring and reflection can be impactful.

TSC - Dr. Dennis Luseni

TSC has used a variety of CPD models in SL, including:

• Distance learning approach with radio model, completed during COVID which includes a cluster model for coaching (includes WhatsApp communication, self-study booklets for radio lessons)
• Communities of practice at the school level: focused on early grade reading and math. Teachers were incentivised to meet once a week discuss testing of skills in classroom. Also accessed open source resources.
• Competency-based lessons: saturday sessions facilitated in a centralized location
• Teacher mentoring and school leader programs: have also been implemented

Reflections

• Incorporating CPD resources through a tablet a great opportunity
• In peer and cluster based systems, incorporating CPD in the schools’ timetable is important
• School leaders’ support to CPD is crucial to success

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