Recruit, Train, Develop,Retain.

#ShapingCPD Shaping the future of CPD report summary

The key messages that emerged from the conference were that we need to:

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Understand and resolve teacher retention in order to solve the recruitment crisis

Ensure professional learning consists of all of the aspects of effective adult learning, crucially including professional enquiry and coaching

Embed professional learning as a career-long approach

Develop collaborative networks for professional learning

Develop a sense of self-efficacy and the efficacy of the profession as a whole

Create a respectful culture based on mutual trust across the system

Making it a reality

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The recommendations in the report aim to help the profession create and demand opportunities for professional learning that develop a sense of self and professional efficacy, feed into a healthy professional learning culture and create a sustainable, stable and motivated teaching workforce.

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If you are in a good school, which supports people, people will stay. The difficulty is managing all of those external factors which are causing us problems. We’ve got to put that umbrella up and keep our teachers in an environment in which they are able to learn and develop.

Tim Matthews, Deputy Head at Oriel High School

What can teachers do?

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• Recognise your own professional learning needs; ensure these are connected to student outcomes and aligned with your school’s improvement objectives

• Identify your own strengths and share these systematically with your peers

• Proactively tap into the expertise of those around you

• Recognise that professional learning opportunities exist in your day-to-day and don’t need to be time and energy consuming

• Drive the discussion about the importance of professional learning in your school and beyond

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Is there too much focus on the management of change rather than the leadership of learning?

Graham Newell, Director of Education at IRIS Connect

What can schools do?

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• Prioritise leadership of learning over simple management of organisations

• Make time for professional learning and embed it as part of the fabric of day-to-day school life

• Invest in resources for ongoing professional learning now, to save on costs in the future

• Embed programmes that focus on the co-evaluation, co-creation and sharing of knowledge

• Identify appropriate coaching and mentoring systems in the school

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We spend a lot of time discussing the recruitment crisis, but it’s actually a retention crisis. If we spent more time developing and looking after the staff that are already experienced in the classroom, they wouldn’t leave. We need to learn from that in order to embed it in future recruitment.

Hannah Wilson, Professional Learning and Consultant Leader at Harris Federation

What can the wider system do?

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• Collect stronger data on the true costs and causes of the recruitment and retention crisis

• Embed the necessary skills for ongoing professional learning during initial teacher education

• Ensure that teacher professional learning is identified as a priority at a systems level

• Create opportunities for meaningful collaboration between teachers, schools and systems

• Ensure that external accountability frameworks identify and recognise best practice in professional learning

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