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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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Phonics Bug Full-Day Training Course 
Pearson Our Phonics Bug Full-Day Training Course is a hands-on, product-based day that provides teachers across your school with a complete, in-depth CPD course aimed at ensuring you can really embed a systematic synthetic phonics approach through Phonics Bug. It consists of a range of practical workshops demonstrating the Phonics Bug software and books, and practicing Phonics Bug lessons £750.00 + VAT(Duration: Full Day) |
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Matched Funding Rapid Phonics Online Intro & Online Follow-up Training Courses
Pearson The Rapid Phonics Online Introduction Course is an ideal introduction for teachers, TAs and SENCOs with a sound experience of synthetic phonics, who want to use Rapid Phonics to provide catch up, and who wish to support struggling learners with their phonic knowledge and progress in reading and spelling. Approximately six weeks after your Online Introduction course, we give you the chance to revisit and consolidate your progress with the Online Follow-up Course. £175.00 + VAT(Duration: 2 x 90 Minutes) |
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Matched Funding Rapid Phonics Full-Day Intro & Online Follow-up Training Courses
Pearson The Rapid Phonics Full-Day Introduction Course provides a complete, in-depth introduction for teachers, TAs and SENCOs who want to use Rapid Phonics to provide catch-up, and who wish to support struggling learners. Then, approximately six weeks after your training, you'll have access to an Online Follow-up Course, giving delegates the opportunity to review progress. £800.00 + VAT(Duration: Full Day) |
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Match Funding Online Intro to Phonics Bug + Phonics Bug Full Day Course
Pearson This matched-funded package consists of a 90 minute live Online Course (accessed via one log-in from your school) followed by a Full-Day Course (9:00am - 3:30pm), on a date of your choice, with a Pearson accredited trainer in your school. This course is only for schools in England wishing to purchase using their Phonics match-funding. £800.00 + VAT(Duration: Full Day) |
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Online Intro to Synthetic Phonics with Phonics Bug + Phonics Bug Full Day Course
Pearson This package consists of a 90 minute live Online Course (accessed via one log-in from your school) followed by a Full-Day Course (9:00am - 3:30pm), on a date of your choice, with a Pearson accredited trainer in your school. £850.00 + VAT(Duration: Full Day) |
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Rapid Phonics Full-Day Introduction & Online Follow-up Training Courses
Pearson The Full-Day Introduction Course includes a comprehensive review of synthetic phonics and a range of practical workshops demonstrating the Rapid Phonics approach, practising teaching a Snappy Lesson, and using the Rapid Phonics decodable books and eBooks. Then, approximately six weeks after your training, you'll have access to an Online Follow-up Course, giving delegates the opportunity to review progress. £850.00 + VAT(Duration: Full Day + 90 Minute Online Follow-up) |
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Rapid Phonics Online Introduction & Online Follow-up Training Courses
Pearson The Rapid Phonics Online Introduction Course is an ideal introduction for teachers, TAs and SENCOs with a sound experience of synthetic phonics, who want to use Rapid Phonics to provide catch up, and who wish to support struggling learners with their phonic knowledge and progress in reading and spelling. Then, approximately six weeks later we give you the chance to revisit and consolidate your progress with the Online Follow-up Course. £200.00 + VAT(Duration: 2 x 90 Minutes) |
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Making Space for Maths
SMaR+ PD -Enabling a Mathematically Rich Environment in the Early Years Friday 22nd March 2013, London The renewed EYFS framework focuses on enabling environments for learning. This conference will provide early years professionals with the opportunity to consider how to enable a mathematically rich environment in their own setting. The day will be a mix of research based Key Note and practical workshops with respected consultants from the Early Years/ mathematics community. £145.00 + VAT£137.50 + VAT for 2 or more staff from one setting £130.50 + VAT for 5 or more staff from one setting (Duration: 8.45 - 3.30) |
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Invite a Watercolour Artist into your School
Hugh Templeton Art Workshops for Primary Schools Pupils in an entire class will be taught the skills to produce a beautiful watercolour painting step-by-step, following the Artist. £245.00 (no VAT on this item)(Duration: Full-day,or half-day. (also suitable as INSET)) |
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Food Growing in Schools
Garden Organic Garden Organic delivery programme of CPD training to schools professionals Garden Organic is able to run a range of training sessions in regional locations and individual schools or clusters of schools. Many of our courses can be run as whole day events with practical activities, or half day or twilight sessions as more of a general overview Free (Duration: Full/half day and twilight sessions) |
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