Curriculum

TDA Postgraduate Professional Development (PPD) Reports - Year 2

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In 1998 the Teaching and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) led the Award-bearing In-Service Education and Training (INSET) scheme for the (then) Department for Education and Skills (DfES). A joint review by TDA and the DfES published in 2003 highlighted areas for development, including:

  • improving the responsiveness of courses to local needs;
  • increasing the accessibility and flexibility of courses; and
  • increasing participation amongst teachers and monitoring the impact of courses.

 

In response to these recommendations, and building on the strengths of the existing award-bearing INSET scheme, the TDA developed a new programme of award bearing postgraduate courses known as the Postgraduate Professional Development (PPD) programme. The TDA PPD programme provides funding to support teachers’ learning and development at postgraduate level (M level). Allocations of the first round of funding for PPD courses were made in February 2005, for the academic year 2005/06.

TDA Postgraduate Professional Development (PPD) Reports - Year 1

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CUREE was commissioned by TDA to undertake a short scoping study on patterns of participation of black and minority ethnic (BME) teachers and teachers with disabilities in Post-graduate Professional Development (PPD) programmes. These reports are the result of the first year of this project.

Finding the Golden Thread - accommodating creativity and innnovation in the curriculum

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http://www.teachingexpertise.com/publications/curriculum-briefing-199
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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