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Introducing the GTC Networks.
Good teaching needs good networks and good networks need good teachers.
The GTC Networks provide support by linking teachers nationally and putting them in touch with the latest research and evidence. They let teachers have a voice at national debates on changes to education.
A curriculum map for CPD
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?
As a CPD leader you will also be helping other teachers identify what they might want to learn more about to improve their own professional knowledge and practice – personalising their own CPD.
In our advice to government (PDF, 80kb) we have suggested that CPD must be relevant, as well as effective. But, while the GTC has done a lot of work on how to make CPD more effective, the issue of what teachers actually need to learn has not been explored as much as it might be.
We have now developed the following ‘curriculum map’ to help you identify what you might need to include in your CPD:
- Understanding the context in which you work in order to meet local challenges and conditions. What is the particular profile of the children and/or young people within your school or educational setting? Consider, for example, their socio-economic status, ability, language capabilities, ethnicity and cultural background.
- Developing a specialisation. For example, expertise appropriate to a certain phase such as Foundation stage, Key stages 1–5, or certain age groups; or a subject or other specialisation, such as special educational needs (SEN).
- Leadership for learning within and beyond classrooms, schools and other educational settings. Contribute in local, regional and national contexts.
- Pedagogy for flexible, innovative, differentiated and appropriate learning opportunities for all children and young people. Base this on up-to-date knowledge of learning and development, curriculum and assessment.
- Professionalism to work inter- and intra-professionally, with parents and other adults within the school and wider community.
This map is not meant to prescribe what you have to learn. Its purpose is to help you reflect on what you need to know more about to be able to change your practice, in ways that will work well with the children or young people you work with
You may have some other ideas about what the teachers need to know and do to improve practice. Let us know your views at connect@gtce.org.uk.
