CPD: Developing Greatness
Our CPD, Developing Greatness, is at the heart of teaching and learning at Beckfoot. If great teaching and learning is what has the biggest impact on student outcomes, then professional development needs to be protected and prioritised.
Our CPD curriculum is:
- For all teachers
- Focussed on improving student outcomes
- Grounded in evidence-informed wisdom
- Long-term
- Bespoke and collaborative
- Linked to policy with opportunities for further exploration
Our core CPD curriculum centres around:
- Termly whole-school CPD, where what we are sharing is relevant to all, linked to whole-school priorities.
- Weekly Collaborative Planning Time, focussing on great teaching and learning, curriculum and assessment in subject areas, linked to Faculty priorities.
- Instructional Coaching, supporting staff in refining habits and developing personal practice.
We also provide an 'extra-curricular' offer, alongside this core CPD, for staff to select from based on their areas of interest or where sessions are linked to pedagogy they are exploring and refining in their own practice.
We have therefore created a 'Developing Greatness calendar'. These are issued half-termly and include opportunities such as:
- 15-minute forums led by our staff
- 1 hour webinars led by external experts, both live and pre-recorded
- Open Classrooms
