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Evaluation of the provision on the CPD Providers’ database and review of the Code of Practice

The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) has developed and is piloting a national database of continuing professional development (CPD) available for teachers and the wider school workforce.  The database allows school staff to search for CPD opportunities and to view detailed information about the expected outcomes, accreditation opportunities, duration and cost. The search tool can provide school staff with insight into the opportunities available, particularly if they are uncertain how to meet their CPD requirements.

Sauce for the Goose

 

After more than a decade of research and practice in teacher professional development, Philippa Cordingley argues persuasively in this pamphlet for a new and informed focus on professional learning as a powerful transformational tool. "Over the past ten years this work has strengthened our belief in the power of professional learning to transform teaching, pupil achievement, and the status of the profession as a whole."

 

Sauce for the Goose targets three key questions: