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Although questions have been raised over the future of the MTL (see CPD Update June), in the West Midlands at least, after an intense five months of recruitment, NQTs have finally begun to embark on their MTL journey
Experience shows positive impact of postgraduate study, says Martin Husbands
Engaging with the Teacher Learning Academy offers many advantages for schools and for individual teachers’ professional development, writes Martin Beedle
Accreditation of the first chartered maths teachers reinforces the growing importance attached to subject-specific awards for teachers, says Simon Childs
Sophie Craven highlights the opportunities for CPD that may be available, mostly free of charge, from your local or regional higher education institutions
Teach First claims to develop excellent teachers by sending top graduates to train in schools in challenging circumstances. Simon Childs looks at the journey participants take to qualification and at what support their schools must provide
An in-house publication can create an ethos in which teaching and learning are discussed and where colleagues are prepared to pass on their experiences, says Josephine Smith
With the first pilots for the Master's in Teaching and Learning to begin in September. Steve Coombs, head of CPD at Bath Spa University, examines the emerging National Framework
A recent survey of graduates of the MTeach at the Institute of Education in London has thrown up some interesting insights into CPD that teachers say works for them. Institute of Education lecturer Jon Pickering summarises his findings
Rob Lane, deputy headteacher at Brannel School, a specialist school for the performing arts, in St Austell, describes the learning experience of writing something to be judged by others
What is the most effective form of CPD? What effect will workforce remodelling and the new Master's have? Nansi Ellis of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers gives her views
Can the Teacher Learning Academy double the number of teachers it has enrolled by 2011? What are the benefits of signing up? Four teachers describe their involvement with the academy
Academic or obscure, instrumental or professionally liberating? CPD Update editor Cliff Jones asks what we can expect the new Master's degrees for all teachers to look like
The provision of Master's-level credits in the PGCE is a significant milestone for the teaching profession, but what are the implications for CPD in schools asks Alison Jackson, ESCalate ITE leader at the University of Cumbria
All NQTs will now be able to study for a Master's level qualification. Cliff Jones puts forward three statements to provoke debate on this topic





