The Impact of CPD Initiatives

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The Impact of CPD Initiatives on Raising
Achievement at St. Thomas More High School
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The importance of CPD for teachers and
educationalists

• Central to raising the achievement of pupils

• Recognised by Government, local education
  authorities and schools

• TTA became TDA

• Coherent strategies in place to train the whole
  school workforce

• CPD related to school improvement

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St. Thomas More R.C. School

• Secondary, comprehensive school for boys and girls

• Highly successful, showing consistent improvement
  in pupil achievement

• Central to success is commitment to CPD

• External training is shared

• Internal training programme

• Collaboration with local schools

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CPD The Key to Improvement in Teaching and
Learning

• Personalised learning

• Whole school approach

• Links and networks are created

• Teachers teaching teachers

• A culture of high expectation

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Training School Status

• ITT Driving the initiative

• Advantages of mentoring for the teacher

• Trainees bring new ideas and questions which need
  answers

• Partnership Promotion Schools

• Professional Studies

• Cross curricular mentoring

• Teacher coaches

• Pupils perceptions

• GTP

• Network groups

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Specialist Maths Computing Status

• Positive effect on all subjects

• ICT and interactive teaching

• More choices for pupils

• In-house / specific training

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Leading Edge

• Beacon School

• Change of focus

• A new partnership

• The process so far

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Collaborative CPD

• LEA Initiative

• Practical training on areas of common interest

• Staff and pupil perceptions

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What have we found?

• Training needs catered for

• Less contact time lost

• Sharing good practice

• Pupils are motivated

• Increased interactive and independent learning
  experiences

• Consistent improvement in exam results

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What else have we found?

• In-house CPD is successful and cost effective

• Staff are up to date

• Teamwork is strengthened

• School community strengthened

• Collaboration offers rich resources

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Alone we can do so little, together we can do
so much. Helen Keller