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Personalising CPD Summer 2012.pdf The Evidence People
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Finding the Golden Thread - accommodating creativity and innnovation in the curriculum
Philippa Cordingley offers six core principles for crafting a creative curriculum to provide an agenda for action you can take to embed creativity in all subject areas in your own school, using case examples throughout to show how schools have used this as a framework for innovation
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Making confident CPD choices through understanding professional learners
This article looks at research evidence about the characteristics of effective professional learning, and the skills of professional learners. It also explains how to make the most of learning opportunities within the school. By developing your own understanding of professional learning and learners, you can become more confident about the choices you have to make with limited resources.
The full article can be accessed here.
The role of professional learning in determining the profession's future
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This paper supports and expands on the presentation made by Philippa Cordingley to the international invitation seminar on the Future of the Teaching Profession held at Churchill College Cambridge on 16/17th February 2012.The event was sponsored by OECD and Education International
It focuses on the nature and role of teacher professional learning in shaping the future of the profession. It offers insights from six systematic and technical reviews of the evidence about Continuing Professional Learning and Development and extensive research and evaluation focussed on the impact of such activity on teachers and pupils and the effectiveness of school as learning environments for them both.
'Sauce for the Goose' at Wroxham Teaching Alliance
The ‘Sauce for the Goose’ day for the Wroxham Teaching Alliance was designed to build a shared understanding of the evidence about what makes a difference for pupil and staff learning. During the day this evidence was unpacked so that the Alliance could build a shared language about CPD and to inform planning and collaboration. As well as identifying strengths to share and early priorities for development practical approaches, tools and resources for securing, sustaining and evaluating quality were explored.