Teacher Training and Development - CPD For Teachers
Channel: Teaching Plus Learning
Date: 2018-06-14

Teacher Training and Development: Start with a Blank Piece of Paper 

If we were to design a system for training and developing teachers would we end up with anything like we currently have?  The Headteachers’ Roundtable meeting, at the Guardian Offices five years on from its inaugural one, thought not.

The current system is increasingly wasteful, incoherent and benefits the already strong schools at the expense of those in greatest need.  It’s not just about complaining or even simply identifying an issue; we need to come up with realistic policy alternatives.  One of the group’s key advantages, beyond a detail practical wisdom of the school system, is that we don’t have to think in short five years, or less, Parliamentary cycles.

If we were to start from a blank piece of paper what ideas might be at the heart of our design?  Firstly, we can’t afford to continue with the wasteful practices we currently have of investing time, effort and funds in training teachers only for many to either not enter the classroom or to leave the profession within the first few years.  Our cliff-edged, front end loaded approach to teacher training is a problem.  Here are some thoughts; we need to collectively rethink the initial training and early development of our teachers.


Extracts from a post by Stephen Tierney on https://leadinglearner.me

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