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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Sign up for free National Teacher Enquiry Network membership from TDT, the national independent CPD charity
- Get half-termly updates, advice and support to help you carry out the most effective professional development.
- Find out about our work to improve the quality of training, and our campaign for teacher-led school improvement.
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Google Earth and beyond: free online GIS 
Geographical Association This highly interactive course will demonstrate several options for working with geographical information to explore patterns, tell stories, investigate change and help students to geo-locate data. You will learn about a range of free GIS and visualisation tools, trial some subscription GIS services and consider how mobile devices can be used to facilitate learning. £160.00 (no VAT on this item)(Duration: One day) |
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Supporting My Teen To Learn - Lead Practitioner
UFA Train to lead this 12 hour programme to introduce parents and carers of 12-19 yrs olds to a range of strategies and approaches that will support their Teens to become more effective, successful learners and to overcome barriers to learning. £149.00 + VAT(Duration: 1 Day) |
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Leadership - Leadership And Change (CMI & SQA)
APeducation Online This NATIONALLY-ACCREDITED leadership and change course equips you with the transferrable leadership and change management skills that can be applied in your organisation, no matter which sector you belong to. £475.00 (no VAT on this item)(Duration: 80 Hours) |
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Leadership - Decision Making and Innovation course (CMI & SQA)
APeducation Online This NATIONALLY-ACCREDITED course is designed to offer developmental opportunities to managers in all types of organisations. It enables you to make proposals and take decisions about innovation in an organisation. £480.00 (no VAT on this item)(Duration: 80 Hours) |
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Leadership in learning - neuroeducation and building capacity for learning
Institute of Education, London Centre for Leadership in Learning This session debates how far we may draw upon our current understandings from neuroeducation to develop provision for children and young people’s capacity for learning in a school setting. £40.00 (no VAT on this item)£30.00 (no VAT on this item) (Duration: Thursday 13 June, 5.00-7.00pm) |
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Leadership - Organisational Leadership course (CMI & SQA)
APeducation Online This NATIONALLY-ACCREDITED course is about organisational leadership, both for the organisation in the present and in the future. It covers approaches to leadership, leadership and organisational vision, leadership skills and developing leaders. Effective leadership is crucial to organisations if they wish to achieve their current and longer term objectives and this course addresses this development need.... (read more) £485.00 (no VAT on this item)(Duration: 80 Hours) |
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Quality management course - Managing Resources and Quality CMI & SQA
APeducation Online This NATIONALLY ACCREDITED qualification focuses primarily on the management of operational activities to relevant quality standards. It has the dual purpose of providing candidates with relevant skills, such as using financial data and developing quality management systems, and enabling them to understand the importance of factors like Total Quality Management and the use of technology to... (read more) £485.00 (no VAT on this item)(Duration: 8 months) |
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Strategic Management course (CMI & SQA)
APeducation Online This NATIONALLY-ACCREDITED course enables you to determine a suitable strategy for an organisation based on an assessment of its strategic position. £425.00 (no VAT on this item)(Duration: 80 Hours) |
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Project Management course (CMI & SQA)
APeducation Online This NATIONALLY-ACCREDITED Project Management course equips you with the knowledge and practical skills required for successful project design and implementation in current and future employment. You will develop a project proposal including an outline project plan. You will then create an approved business case for this project which demonstrates its fit with your organisation’s business objectives and its viability, based... (read more) £475.00 (no VAT on this item)(Duration: 8 months) |
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Organisational Innovation
APeducation Online This course is designed to develop your understanding of innovation in an organisation and considers innovation in products, processes and systems. You will gain an in-depth understanding of how organisations nurture and manage innovative ideas and the many difficulties that they may face in so doing. £275.00 (no VAT on this item)(Duration: 40 hours) |
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