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CPD implementation tools

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  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

CPD Hubs Forum 22.1.21 - Key insights taken from international research on effective CPD

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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