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  • Snacks, shoulders, and sleep: factors that influence teachers’ professional development decision-making

    Published 23/05/23

    The professional development literature has identified characteristics of effective professional development and investigated teachers’ reasoning for their professional development choices. A thorough understanding of teachers’ decision-making about their professional development choices can assist providers in developing opportunities that teachers are likely to uptake. This article reports on a study that examined teachers’ self-reported decision-making around professional development with the intent of further refining the field’s understanding of their choices. The 22 participants were teachers who participated in semi-structured interviews that elicited their responses to questions about the types of professional development in which they participated. The findings reveal how teachers are influenced to attend professional development and shed further light on the nature of the considerations teachers make when faced with professional development choices. We argue that these understandings can be leveraged to design professional development opportunities that will appeal to teachers.

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  • Effective Professional Development: Encouraging Self-monitoring

    Published 23/05/23

    Professional Development may be more effective if it establishes a method whereby teachers can monitor and record their own performance. That’s the key message from Mechanism 13 of the EEF’s Effective Professional Development guidance report.

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  • Ofsted Report

    Published 23/05/23

    Independent review of teachers’ professional development in schools: phase 1 findings

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  • Department for Education (DfE) expands mentoring for schools

    Published 22/05/23

    DfE names 9 more attendance hubs and expands mentoring

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  • Sats: KS2 Year 6 reading paper revealed

    Published 22/05/23

    Sats: KS2 Year 6 reading paper revealed after row over difficulty

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  • How to maximise Teacher Professional Development

    Published 22/05/23

    Some informative reads when thinking about teacher professional development and how to maximise its impact

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  • Mental Health Support Teams reach only a third of pupils

    Published 22/05/23

    Mental Health Support Teams reach only a third of pupils

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  • Update from the National Centre for Computing Education

    Published 30/03/23

    Update from the National Centre for Computing Education

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  • Early Years Professional Development

    Published 13/01/23

    Early Years Professional Development Programme places are now available for February 2023

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  • Celebrate teachers with Apple

    Published 23/09/22

    Join Apple this World Teachers’ Day for an exciting celebration. You will see how fellow educators are using Apple technology in their classrooms every day to impact teaching and learning. Dive into the latest news from the Apple Education Community, our new professional learning hub. And hear updates on Apple Teacher, Everyone Can Create and Europe Code Week. 

    The session will be repeated four times: 

    Tuesday 4 October: 12:30–13:15 

    Tuesday 4 October: 16:30–17:15 

    Wednesday 5 October: 12:30–13:15 

    Wednesday 5 October: 16:30–17:15 

    Register Today!

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  • Hate Crime Awareness Week

    Published 23/09/22

    The Hate Crime Alliance are running an online event - From Hate to Radicalisation - aimed at parents/guardians looking at the links between hate/hate crimes and radicalisation.

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  • Governance 'best practice' videos

    Published 28/07/22

    Bradford Opportunity Area funded the development of six videos to explore school governance 'best practice'

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  • End of term essential actions for schools

    Published 07/07/22

    Download our 'essential actions' newsletter to guide your preparation for 2022-23 teacher development programmes.

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  • How did we do in '22?

    Published 07/07/22

    We are proud of our achievements in 2021-22. We've created a short summary of our reach based on the key performance indicators we agreed with the DfE. We far exceeded nearly all of them!

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  • Download our NPQ planner wall chart

    Published 07/07/22

    Planning to make the most of the National Professional Qualification (NPQ) scholarships and grants for small schools?

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