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Teacher Development Trust

Challenge, proposals and questions

http://www..teacherdevelopmenttrust.org

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The challenge

How can we be a world leader in teachers' continuous professional learning within five years?

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What would that look like and how can we get there?

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Teacher Development Trust's approach

Improve provision �by encouraging effective practice

Widen access �to quality provision

Stimulate demand �for effective professional development

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Stimulate demand for quality CPD

  • Provide schools with training materials and diagnostic tools to enable them to improve their professional development practice.�
  • Provide toolkits to improve needs analysis and impact evaluation

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Widen access to quality CPD

Ensure access to high quality training provision via our free database, GoodCPDGuide - already the largest CPD database in England.

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Drive up the quality of CPD provision

  • The teaching community can leave reviews of courses and consultancy to rate it on its impact on their practice and pupils' learning.�
  • Providers can commission a quality review of their training delivery by CUREE, leading to an official star-rating on GoodCPDGuide.

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How do we become the best in 5 years?

  • Can we establish a network of school professional development specialists - perhaps SLEs?�
  • How can we best organise conferences and awards to support and celebrate excellence in professional learning?�

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How can we become the best in 5 years?

  • How can we most effectively reveal the quality of CPD within schools in an annual survey?�
  • What research needs to be commissioned to ensure that our efforts are having the necessary impact on pupils attainment and on the profession as a whole?

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How can we become the best in 5 years?

  • How can we raise expectations of teachers, leaders and parents that schools should be supportive professional environments that place effective professional learning at the heart of what they do? �
  • How can we work most effectively with government and other agencies to bring about these changes?

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How can we become the best in 5 years?

We need your ideas, your partnership, and your support to achieve this ambitious but important goal.