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Teacher development: Making CPD more effective

What makes an outstanding teacher? Last year, Helen Webb wrote about her work developing an in-school teacher development programme. She now updates us on this work, the challenges she has encountered and how the programme has evolved

In an article for SecEd last year – Building an Outstanding Teacher CPD Programme (January 2017) – I discussed the challenges, successes and failures of developing an in-school outstanding teacher programme.

Having now led this CPD programme with two different cohorts of staff using very different formats, this article aims to share some of the key lessons I learnt in ensuring that CPD of this kind is delivered as effectively as possible.

In recent years our school has experienced some financial challenges and our budget for CPD has been extremely limited. I think this makes for an interesting case study, as we have had to focus on providing the majority of CPD in-house. This has meant that individuals and teams of staff have been challenged to be creative and innovative in the way we offer CPD.

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