Summary
Contents
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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 Identify Needs
How to Identify Needs
This chapter covers:
- Procedures
- Identifying teachers' needs
- Identifying support staff's needs
- Individual development plans
Procedures
In institutions where staff development is most effective, procedures for identifying individual needs, such as performance management (PM) or appraisals, are well thought through and often long-established. All staff believe that this is a way to empower and develop them, rather than a stick with which to beat them. Flexible systems allow for needs to be identified and met as they arise without losing the impetus on original priorities. Connections with school and team development plans are important to make. In most PM systems there is an option for a personal objective in addition to ones designed to meet strategic pupil targets and institutional improvements. In our research we ...
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