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The post-election dust is settling and we now have a clearer picture of what is coming our way
Imagine you are the politician in charge of education, committed to maintaining spending levels, but having to do your bit to cut the national deficit. You don't want to cut anything out so you try to make the money go further; professional development is in your sights
Is ‘excellent teacher’ the best way to describe an advanced, experienced practitioner? Nick Sorensen and Dr Steven Coombs offer an alternative concept – the ‘authorised’ teacher
CPD can be enhanced by research conducted by school staff, says Paul Ainsworth
Five Inset days a year isn't enough, say Sara Bubb and Peter Earley of the Institute of Education
CPD is being seen in too narrow a way and must address issues wider than ‘relevance’ and ‘usefulness’, argue Chris Carpenter and Hazel Bryan
Julie McGrane, founder of Leading Learning, argues for the benefits of action research
Peter Leyland, a tutor for the Workers' Educational Association, discusses his professional development journey from teaching children to adults, and how it impacted on his practice
Working with trainee teachers can provide professional growth for the mentors as well as the mentees, say Marion Jones, Anne Campbell, Olwen McNamara and Grant Stanley
What should the next step for your CPD policy be? Now that the central role of CPD is recognised in schools, Philippa Cordingley looks at how professional learning can progress even more in the future
Action research with G&T pupils didn't produce the results Peter Leyland expected, but he found it had great CPD benefits
What CPD needs will a teacher have throughout the six distinct stages of their career? This article offers research summaries on the subject
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
Teachers and pupils alike have benefited from an action research project in Wales. Faith McCready gives her evaluation of the Leading the Learning project and describes the benefits for her own CPD of the six weeks she spent researching it
Does spending time and money on teacher training and professional development actually make a difference? Sara Bubb looks at the arguments for fresh and creative professional development for teachers, and getting value for money





