CPD

The latest research, best-practice advice and school-based case studies to help you develop your teaching career

Tuesday

24th Jun 2025

How our school built a culture of allergy awareness
A primary head explains how they knew it was time to establish a more robust ‘allergy-safe’ approach – and how they did it
Bumblebee in playground

Monday

23rd Jun 2025

How practitioner enquiry can empower a school’s workforce
Positioning teachers as researchers trying to solve teaching and learning problems in their own classrooms can be a great model for CPD, write three initial teacher trainers
Teacher CPD: How practitioner enquiry empowers teachers
Why the Harkness method is ideal for EAL students
The leader of an international school in China says switching to the Harkness method has transformed the learning experience for students and staff
Harkness

Friday

20th Jun 2025

How we’re helping leaders to become ‘architects of school culture’
Nord Anglia’s Dr Kate Erricker explains that the group is giving its leaders the tools to create collaborative school cultures – and why this is so important
Helping school leaders to build a strong school culture

Monday

9th Jun 2025

How useful are your ‘book looks’?
Work scrutinies, or ‘book looks’, are often not used well to support school improvement, suggests Mark Enser. So, how can leaders get this practice right?
book looks

Wednesday

28th May 2025

Why schools can’t rely on external CPD
To ensure the best professional development for teachers now and in the future, it needs to come from within the profession and should not be dictated by government, writes Sam Gibbs
External CPD fire net

Tuesday

27th May 2025

How far should we trust ‘edubooks’?
Reading a slew of educational books may not be the best way to make your teaching truly evidence-informed, suggests Christian Bokhove
Edubooks printing press

Wednesday

21st May 2025

5 tips for international teachers to get a job back home
Securing a teaching job in the UK isn’t always easy when you’ve spent time working overseas. But experienced head Rob Ford has some helpful advice
international teachers keep connected

Monday

19th May 2025

Third of school staff say safeguarding training ‘inadequate’
91¶¶Òõ Safeguarding Report 2025 reveals that school staff see the monitoring of online behaviour outside of school as the biggest challenge
safeguarding training sinking boat
Exclusive

Friday

16th May 2025

Government told to ‘trust the profession’ on teacher training
Experts have their say on the government’s approach to initial teacher training, CPD and the Early Career Framework at the Schools and Academies Show
Teacher training trust trapeze

Thursday

15th May 2025

Why it’s time to scrap punitive teacher appraisals
As the sector moves on from performance-related pay, schools need performance management systems that focus more on meaningful professional growth than on compliance and control 
How to make teacher appraisals more effective
10,000 teachers to be trained in PE for pupils with SEND
DfE scheme to make PE lessons more inclusive aims to reach more than 240,000 pupils over three years
SEND teaching PE class