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Want to know more about Government initiatives for CPD, opportunities for you and your school and other CPD updates?

CPD Budget Management
TeacherNet website tells you about the management of funding to support CPD programmes in schools. It gives information on where funding could come from and who decides how and where the money is allocated and spent.

DfE Publications
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21st Century Schools: A World-Class Education for Every Child
This document describes how the entire school system will need to change, and how individual schools will need to look beyond traditional boundaries, be outwards facing and work in close partnership with young people, parents, other schools, colleges, universities and with other children's services.
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Your child, your schools, our future: building a 21st century schools system
The document outlines the challenges and changes that schools now face, and describe reforms that have been made to meet these. These reforms build on the progress of the last decade and mean that the Government can now take the historic step of setting out new Pupil and Parent Guarantees. This document has links to the 5 year license to teach and also to introducing an obligation for teachers to demonstrate ongoing CPD.

Rarely cover initiative
Implemented in September 2009, this initiative means that teachers will be asked to cover less for absent colleagues. But what implications does this have on CPD? Will it mean that teachers will be allowed out less from school for CPD training and courses because the school cannot/will not employ supply teachers or cover supervisors to replace them? Read more

In response to the many expressions of concern about how Rarely Cover will impact on LOtC activities, DCSF (now DfE) and CLOtC have jointly issued a statement:
To be most effective, LOtC activities should be built into an integrated curriculum. LOtC activities will then be timetabled in advance and will only be subject to Rarely Cover provisions if the person timetabled to take the class or group is unforeseeably absent. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF, now DfE) has published the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 2009. Paragraphs 47 to 90 in section 4 of this document set out information about cover and what schools need to do to ensure that teachers and the head teacher may be required to cover only rarely from 1 September 2009. Paragraph 73 explains that learning outside the classroom is an important part of the curriculum and provision for it should be included in school calendars and timetables. Appropriate arrangements should be included in the timetable for both the staff and pupils who will be participating in learning outside the classroom and for those who are not.

For further information on rarely cover, please go to: http://www.tda.gov.uk/remodelling/nationalagreement/cover.aspx  
To see the full guidance in Section 4 of the 2009 STPCD go to: http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=14150 
To see the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 2009 go to: http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/14150/STPCD%202009.pdf
The following school workforce unions are amongst those organisations which have endorsed the aims of the LOtC manifesto: ASCL, ATL, NAHT, NASUWT, NUT, VOICE.

DCSF (now DfE) 2005 Report: Continuing Professional Development Impact Evaluation
This two year project investigated the evaluation of the impact of continuing professional development (CPD) in schools. Read more

TDA's advice to ministers on professional development
Contains responses to

1. An overarching strategy to stimulate informed demand for professional development and ensure high-quality supply to meet that demand
2. A List of national priorities for teachers' continuing professional development (CPD) during 2007-10, agreed by key national partners.
3. A summary of activity, both planned and underway, to address quality assurance in CPD.

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Professional development strategy for the children's workforce in schools 2009-12
The TDA are developing a strategy that sets out their vision for a learning culture within, and across, all schools that maximises the potential of the school workforce and enables the best outcomes possible. It focuses on: embedding a learning culture, increasing coherence and collaboration and improving quality and capacity.
The strategy will be published in summer 2009 and take account of the Government's white paper on 21st century schools. More information

Latest TDA publications
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Have your say on TDA consultations
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Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL)
The Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) is a Government-funded, classroom-based qualification developed to help teachers extend their teaching skills and abilities. Initially, the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) is being offered to eligible newly qualified teachers. In time, ministers expect all teachers will have an opportunity to take the MTL. The MTL will be available to the first cohort of eligible NQTs in the 2009/10 academic year. The MTL is expected to take approximately three years to complete. More information

Teaching Assistants
TeacherNet contains a wealth of information about Teaching Assistants and Cover Supervisors.

Inset Days
Schools are required to run 5 inset days throughout the year.

Source: TDA

School Improvement Planning
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National Framework for Mentoring and Coaching
Mentoring and Coaching CPD Capacity Building Project. Read more

Guidance on evaluating CPD
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Ofsted report 2006: The logical chain: continuing professional development in effective schools
This report looks at schools' arrangements for the professional development of their staff. It is based on visits to 29 schools whose previous inspection reports identified strong practice in this area. It also considers the arrangements for staff's professional development in different subjects. Read more

Ofsted: Learning from the best
Lessons from the outstanding providers identified by Ofsted 2006/7. Read more

CPD Leaders
A great document from http://www.cpdleader.com/ that discusses the various roles of a CPD leader

Leading and coordinating CPD in Secondary Schools
The objectives of this training are to help school CPD coordinators and school strategy managers understand:

• the implications for CPD of the Government's Five Year Strategy for Children
• what the research tells us about effective CPD
• how to make best use of the National Strategy to support CPD
• how to make best use of the support materials provided in Leading and coordinating CPD in secondary schools.

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National training and development programme for CPD leadership
A national training and development programme for CPD leadership will be available to CPD leaders and those aspiring to become CPD leaders from September 2009. Read more 

Strategic Leadership of CPD
Unit which exmaines some of the central issues facing CPD leaders. Read more

Teachers TV Leadership toolkit
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Performance management
Article by Cliff Jones in CPD Week. Read article

What do specialists do in CPD programmes for which there is evidence of positive outcomes for pupils and teachers?
This review  from the Teacher Training Resource Bank explores and discusses CPD programmes in which the role of a specialist has improved student or teacher outcomes, in order to consider how best to support teacher's CPD in the future. Read review 

The Diagnostic Framework for CPD
7 Principles of CPD from the London Grid for Learning. Read more

Continuing Professional Development Mark
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