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Connect held a successful national conference to celebrate the second year of the Personalising CPD project, and to stimulate debate on the future of CPD.

The Teaching and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) is looking for volunteer teachers to help it develop a national database of CPD provision. The database will launch in autumn 2008.

The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) is introducing some guidance about professional development for teachers in their second and third years. (Spring 2008)

These resources were used in Connect events and are designed to help plan you professional development by looking at the drivers for change.

An innovative online resource dedicated to and for educational professionals and lay people. (Autumn 2007)

A GTC resource file on professional education and development for teachers in relation to Special Educational Needs (SEN).

A free guide to assesment from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). (Autumn 2007)

A newsletter produced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). (Autumn 2007)

The latest resources for CPD leaders include latest research and insights into practice on personalising CPD.

The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) has produced a series of guidance documents relating to CPD. (Autumn 2007)

Access resources developed by CPD leaders who are working to exemplify the new standards. (Summer 2007)

Creative Partnerships recently published Building Creative Partnerships: a handbook for schools. (Spring 2007)

A 15-minute video download about personalising CPD. (Spring 2007)

The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) is planning a marketing campaign to inform teachers about productive continuing professional development in the form of postgraduate professional development (PPD) courses. (Spring 2007)

The GTC view of personalising CPD is that every teacher should have access to and participate in effective, relevant and sustained CPD. A Connect meeting with school-based CPD leaders looked at the issues involved and asked delegates for their definitions of personalising CPD. (Spring 2007)

The second issue of the National Teacher Research Panel (NTRP) publication Inside Information is now available. (Spring 2007)

What kinds of knowledge, skill and understanding do you need to develop most? What aspects of your professional practice will have the most impact on the outcomes of all the children and young people you work with? (Spring 2007)

Quality teaching improves educational outcomes for all children and young people by raising their achievements, behaviour and attitudes. To achieve quality teaching, CPD is essential. (Spring 2007)

The GTC’s annual survey is the most comprehensive of its kind. Chapter 4 of the 2006 survey looks at CPD in particular. (Autumn 2006)

The GTC has always put CPD at the centre of its policy and advisory work. Changes to performance management procedures have now been published following a consultation over the summer by the DfES. (Autumn 2006)

The DfES EPD pilot scheme looked at CPD arrangements for those teachers in their 2nd to 5th year of teaching. (Autumn 2006)

Connect has commissioned Professor Christopher Day of the University of Nottingham to write about the importance of context for CPD leadership. (Autumn 2006)

Research of the Month CPD resource files (Summer 2006)

Analysis of segments of the teaching population from the GTC Survey of Teachers 2005 showed significant differences between teachers who are working in more challenging circumstances in schools and those who are not. (Summer 2006)

The second event of the Small Schools project group, ‘Perfectly Formed’ was held in London on Friday 28 April 2006. (Summer 2006)

Graham Handscomb, principal adviser with the School Improvement Service for the Essex local authority, talks about what we know about the best ways for teachers to learn. (Summer 2006)

A new research report shows that supply teachers have more difficulty accessing CPD than other teachers. (Summer 2006)

Opportunities and resources for middle and senior managers from the National College for School Leadership. (Summer 2006)

Report on the focus group meeting of the Special Settings and CPD project group. (Spring 2006)

Lesley Saunders reflects on research-informed professional practice. (Spring 2006)

Learn more about the Pedagogies for E-learning Resources Project and read a review of 'Learning and Teaching Using ICT – Practical Support Pack'. (Spring 2006)

Professional learning communities: source materials for school leaders and other leaders of professional learning. (Spring 2006)

Findings from the GTC Survey of Teachers 2005 showed a significant difference between primary and secondary teachers’ levels of satisfaction in their CPD. (Spring 2006)

An overview of an interesting study into pupil voice and teachers’ engagement with suggestions made by pupils. (Spring 2006)

New research concludes that networks can serve as effective means of improving teaching, learning and attainment. (Spring 2006)

Don’t miss these invitations to meet and work with other small schools! (Autumn 2005)

In autumn 2000 the DfES involved the GTC in its work to develop the Teachers’ Standards Framework. Connect network members were invited to take part in this consultation process. (Summer 2005)

Case studies and examples of ways that individual teachers and schools have used the GTC’s 'Guide to Peer Observation'. (Summer 2004)

All teachers can think of a conversation that has changed their professional practice. But was it a happy accident - or the result of a structured approach to professional learning? (Autumn 2004)

The findings of 20 studies into what makes CPD more effective are brought together in a new GTC research project. (Autumn 2006)