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Taking Ownership of our Professional Development

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Question

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What is your best CPD experience?

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What is your worst CPD experience?

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Something done to us, something we have to do

or something we do ourselves, something we want to do?

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I think CPD is important

Teacher quality matters a lot!

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High quality CPD

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The best way to improve teacher quality

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Better provision and outcome for pupils

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As leaders the more we focus on this the more significant our impact will be

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But…

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‘If CPD is so important why is it so much of it so bad?’ Prof. Becky Allen

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‘For a profession dedicated to the learning of others, teachers seem to care little over their own learning’ Prof Rob Coe

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Less than 1% of teacher professional development effectively transformed classroom practice (CUREE)

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Taking ownership

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  1. Online, bite size learning
  1. It is more effective
  2. Time, time, time! Getting to the heart of the matter
  3. Ownership & autonomy
  4. Flexibility & availability - Point of need
  5. Pace

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Can a Bitesize Approach to CPD Work? (teachedcpd.com)

Give it a go - free online courses

www.teachedcpd.com

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NPQs