As part of the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ strategy for continuing professional development (CPD) and the TDA’s support for new professionalism and performance management, we have developed online early professional development (EPD) guidance for early career teachers and those supporting their career development.
This is the first national guidance on EPD for teachers and schools in England. It aims to:
- improve support for second and third year teachers taking on additional responsibilities
- ensure performance management in year two of teaching constructively builds on development and objectives set in the induction year
The guidance is based on CPD research identifying national priorities for EPD from the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre, Ofsted, the National Foundation for Educational Research, the General Teaching Council for England and the TDA. The guidance provides links to, and summarises, the research base. It identifies the benefits of well-planned EPD for pupils, teachers and schools and provides:
- advice on how school and local authority EPD frameworks can dovetail with performance management, induction, the Every Child Matters agenda and emerging responsibilities for teachers
- links to relevant TDA guidance and national programmes for early career teachers,
- practical advice for teachers on how to support their own development from induction through performance management and their early career years
- practical examples of local EPD provision in schools and local authorities
For further information contact Laura Dillingham. For free promotional EPD postcards call 0845 6060 323 or e-mail publications@tda.gov.uk and quote TDA0520/03.08/DUD.
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