how cramlington learning village have professionalised their cpd

Cramlington Learning Village – How we have Professionalised our CPD

Ken Brechin – Deputy Headteacher . Head of Teaching School,

Cramlington Learning Village

The big recent shapers in helping us to ‘raise the bar’ with the impact of CPD on the quality of Teaching

• NTEN – National Teacher Enquiry Network. Transformed our approach to CPD

• This book gave us the language of teacher ‘with-it-ness’

• IRIS Connect – our No1 tool for teacher improvement

Our Challenge

• We have 120 teachers (and 60 support staff whose CPD is not to be forgotten) all at different stages in their career.

• How can we offer high quality with evidence of impact CPD to all our staff, who all have different needs?

Stage 1 – develop ‘NQT to NPQH’ Pathways

• We have worked hard to develop our CPD provision at Cramlington Learning Village so it can meet the needs of all of our teachers at CLV.

• Complementing our Wednesday afternoon CPD programme, we have expanded our one year CPD programme to offer high impact pathways to all staff right through to the NPQH qualification.

Our 5 year core (3yr compulsory) programme flows into teaching & Learning, pastoral and Leadership routes, and has expanded as a result of the CPD we offer through the Teaching School.

Ensuring high impact of CPD? – Working with NTEN really made us think

• Can we determine a baseline?

• How might you evaluate the impact of the CPD programme? What tools might we use?

Measuring the impact of CPD

• Our primary emphasis is now on measuring the impact of CPD, often using pupil outcomes, but also using other tools like teacher behaviour rubrics

• To evaluate our new NQT programme we analysed how students in the care of NQT’s performed vs targets over previous 2 years alongside teacher behaviour proformas

Now we know the impact of many of our CPD stages on Teaching and Learning and are constantly refining them

Use High impact tools - IRIS• At CLV, IRIS has been our

go-to tool for developing the skill level of teachers.

Ways we use IRIS

• Individual coaching – a much more efficient process

• Capturing best practice and showing other teachers what outstanding practice looks like

• IRIS ‘triads’ plus Lead practitioner - very, very powerful!

Ways we use IRIS to develop and sustain Effective Teacher Behaviours

• IRIS ‘triads’ plus Lead practitioner - very, very powerful!

• Year 3 of our CPD programme is to operate in an IRIS triad throughout the year

Darren Mead, Lead Practitioner

What we have learned• When planning CPD, you have to plan how you will

evaluate its impact – pupil data, teacher behaviour rubrics etc

• For CPD to impact on teaching you need a shared language of effective teaching and be clear what it looks like

• Most efficient way of impacting on individual classroom practice – seeing yourself on video through the eyes of someone else

kbrechintsa@cramlingtonlv.co.uk