Independent professional development listings and advice
Target the learning of specific pupils
- Professional development is most effective when you're aiming to improve the learning of a specific group of pupils.
- To maximise the benefit, decide on the specific pupils and a clear learning goal for them before you choose a course, event, expert or resource.
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Sustain the CPD for at least two terms
- A one-off training event rarely changes habits effectively, you need to actively pursue a new idea or skill for at least two terms, or more than 50 hours if you want to see a long-lasting change. Sustained experimentation and refinement is the best way of embedding a theoretical idea in everyday classroom practice.
- A single course could kick-start this process or act as a refresher during the learning process, but shouldn't be undertaken without a plan to continue the learning back at school or college.
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Work with colleagues to plan & observe
- You're much more likely to succeed in improving your teaching habits if you work with colleagues.
- You need to find time to identify ideas, share and discuss the progress of new ideas regularly including trying out new approaches, plan lessons/interventions together, observe each other, examine work samples and assessments and keep adapting and improving. To do this you must allocate time for the regular giving and receiving of constructive feedback.
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Consult an expert, course, or resource
- The most effective professional development requires an outside voice to support, challenge your beliefs and assumptions and guide the implementation of new ideas, as well as a mentor or coach to facilitate your learning.
- If you keep everything in-house you may be recycling ideas that are less effective, choosing sub-optimal strategies, making mistakes that others have already made, and you may stop investigating before you've fully an explored an idea.
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Evalute the effect on pupils' learning
- Throughout the learning process you should keep evaluating how the learning experience of your pupils has changed. Just because you've change your practice doesn't necessarily mean they're learning any more effectively.
- Use a variety of ways of evaluating learning: tests, homeworks, surveys, work-samples, observations or video, and of course simply asking pupils.
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Enquiry in the Curriculum 
The Philosophy Foundation This programme is run in the classroom alongside the teachers helping them to understand how to develop and when to use enquiries to assist their everyday teaching. £1,100.00 (no VAT on this item) for total course£995.00 (no VAT on this item) for two or more teachers / classes for total course (Duration: 10 weeks (15 hours)) |
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Creative Connections
Royal Opera House Education The Royal Opera House Thurrock is recruiting for Creative Connections, a professional development programme aimed at teachers and other professionals working with young people in Thurrock, such as youth workers, and creative practitioners. The programme develops participants’ skills to design and lead projects that support young people’s creative learning. It offers them experience and understanding of creative project management by... (read more) Free Free Free (Duration: 8 days (across 2013-14)) |
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The If Odyssey: A Philosophical Journey for Teachers and Pupils
The Philosophy Foundation The If Odyssey CPD project uses the award-winning book ‘The If Odyssey’ to give pupils and teachers an introduction to Philosophical Enquiry through using the story of The Odyssey. This can be linked directly to the History, English, Geography, PSHE, or Citizenship curriculum. With this project an accredited Philosophy Teacher from The Philosophy Foundation will deliver 10 hour-long sessions in... (read more) £980.00 (no VAT on this item) for non members£928.00 (no VAT on this item) for members £880.00 (no VAT on this item) for two or more teachers / classes (Duration: 14 hours over 12 weeks) |
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Classroom Presence
RADA Enterprises Our training for teachers applies the performance skills of an actor to the demands of classroom teaching; giving you the skills needed to be as memorable, charismatic and impactful as possible. £350.00 (no VAT on this item)(Duration: Friday 14th June 2013) |
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Using ipads in education settings
Institute of Education, London Centre for Leadership in Learning Practice using an ipad and explore different educational apps which have potential for use in a variety of teaching and learning contexts. Share ideas and reflect on their suitability for use in your organisation. £85.00 (no VAT on this item)£70.00 (no VAT on this item) (Duration: Friday 28 June and 5 July) |
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Using ipads in education settings
Institute of Education, London Centre for Leadership in Learning Practice using an ipad and explore different educational apps which have potential for use in a variety of teaching and learning contexts. Share ideas and reflect on their suitability for use in your organisation. £85.00 (no VAT on this item)£70.00 (no VAT on this item) (Duration: 24 May, 6 and 26 June) |
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Stop-frame Animation for Teachers
Bristol Film Academy Learn how you and your pupils can create a stop-motion masterpiece with a standard-issue PC, webcam and just a little imagination. This course, which has been developed in association with the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education and Aardman, takes you through the entire process of animated filmmaking and gives you a realistic framework that you can adapt to fit your own teaching needs. £259.00 + VAT(Duration: 1 day) |
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Introduction to Filmmaking
Bristol Film Academy Filmmaking is not only fun, creative and rewarding, it’s also a great way to explore and learn. With inexpensive cameras and software available in most schools, you’re never too young or too old to start your career as a filmmaker. Our course - new this academic year - is designed to give you practical frameworks you can use at your school. You’ll go away full of confidence and new ideas of how to harness your pupils’ creativity and use filmmaking for focused learning around any topic. £259.00 + VAT(Duration: 1 day) |
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Embedding Good Habits of Learning
Enliven Education An extended action research programme for primary and secondary teachers wishing to develop practice that allows students to embed good habits of learning for successful and resilient life long learning. £325.00 (no VAT on this item)£250.00 (no VAT on this item) for additional teachers taking part from the same school and at the same time (Duration: 5 x 1:1 or paired meetings, 4 periods of practical research in between meetings and informal on-going support over whole programme which extends over anything between 2 months and a full academic year) |
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Raspberry Pi Inventions
CPD for Teachers The Raspberry Pi Inventions Workshop is all about exploring the enormous potential of this £26 computer in the real world. The Pi lifts the lid on computers allowing anyone, children in particular, to experiment, explore and create. The Raspberry Pi is cheap enough to risk 'embedding' it in places other computers can't reach and powerful enough to impact global problems, including energy use, access to information and technological disenfranchisement. It's great fun, too. £279.00 + VAT includes free Raspberry Pi and SD card(Duration: 1 day) |
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