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With the current emphasis on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for teachers, it is important to ensure that every member of staff has the opportunity to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding as outlined in the professional and occupational standards for the school workforce. As your practical guide to developing your staff, this book shares successful ideas from other schools, colleges and local authorities. Topics covered include: - developing a learning-centred culture - finding time for staff development - meeting the different needs of staff - how to evaluate the impact of staff development With vignettes and case studies and its emphasis on practical and research-based perspectives, this book offers tried and tested strategies for successful and rewarding staff development that, most importantly, can contribute to improving pupil outcomes. Especially relevant to those responsible for leading and managing staff development in schools, colleges and at local authority level, this book is also useful for anyone working towards higher degrees in Education Leadership and Management, Mentoring-Coaching and the new qualifications for leaders of CPD and the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL).
How to Personalise Learning
How to Personalise Learning
This chapter covers:
- What we know
- How adults learn
- Approaches to personalising development
What we Know
There is much discussion about personalising the learning experience for students but we need to think about similar processes and practices for the workforce - for adult as well as young learners. We saw in Chapter 1 (Activity) how one school personalises development programmes for all their staff and three discuss their development journeys: from PE teacher to assistant principal, TA to teacher and from nurse to school nurse. All staff have training and development needs and organisations will set up various systems to identify them (see Chapter 7). Individual needs can be divided into professional, personal and a mixture of the two, pro-personal needs - the ...
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