The Sheffield CPD Hubs Programme

Hello there! How are you? Please use this space for any thoughts, musings and insights about CPD, teaching and learning, leadership etc. What is your name? What did you read? What do you think? What might you put into practice?

Thank you for engaging in the forum today. I hope it was useful. Gap tasks: READ and LEARN 1. Explore the TDT's Teaching, Learning and Leadership research data base and  Mr. Barton's research summary web page. Click  here   and  here  for the gold! 2. Have a look at the EXPLORE implementation checklist for leaders. What two questions could your leaders benefit from when exploring new approaches? SHARE the knowledge 3. Share your findings/ insights and take-aways from this forum with your SLT/ staff. COMMIT to an action  4. Decide on one action you can take to further spread the culture of reading around research amongst your staff (leaders, teachers, support staff and teams) e.g.  A Teaching and Learning Bulletin Exploring disciplined enquiry Signposting middle/ subject leaders to books, publications, podcasts Protecting time for more reading in CPD sessions Planning a CPD library Raising the profile - CPD display in the staff room. Best wishes Alex

 

Hello. This CPD treasure trove was kindly curated by Kathryn Morgan from the Teacher Development Trust. It can be used when  exploring the evidence base and thinking around your pending transformational priority arising from your forthcoming diagnostic reviews. It features blogs, podcasts, articles and research papers in areas such as leadership, pedagogy, curriculum and much more. Click  here  to be taken to the CPD Hubs resources folder to access it.  I hope you find it useful.

  EEF's Putting evidence to work: a school’s guide to implementation. A robust model to support implementation of CPD or any new approach in schools. You can follow this model to explore, prepare, deliver and sustain your transformational priority. Click here to view the resources. The 5 step research-informed CPD cycle This model mobilises effective CPD elements into an easy-to-follow cycle that can be used for designing sustained CPD programmes. It involves 5 stages: 1. Designing a specific CPD programme 2. Delivering the initial input of research informed content to participants 3. Providing the tools and time for deliberate practice in classrooms and peer challenge 4. Evaluating practice by CPD leaders  5. Reflecting and reviewing impact with all participants Click here for a full explanation.   Evaluating Professional Development To support in evaluating the impact of CPD programmes in school, Thomas Guskey's  Evaluating Professional Development breaks down  evaluation of

Self study: Insights from research around effective CPD For your Self Study task today, please research the publication that is allocated to you. Beneath the list is an image with a brief summary for each publication that may help navigating more of the wordier papers. Please spend 25 minutes studying it. Then, re-enter the break out room with your allocated partner. Spend 15 minutes, discussing the key insights from the research summary and how it may apply to CPD in your school. Be ready to feed back to the group with a few key ideas that resonate with you  and your school. Publication and link                                       1.  DFE standard for professional learning   2.  Developing Great Teaching: Lessons from the international  reviews into effective professional development 3.  Rapid Evidence Assessment: Remote Professional Development 4. Do supportive professional environments promote teacher development? Read David Weston's  article on Kraft and Papay's 2014 pape