- The standards in practice: pages from the TDA website showing how the professional standards can be used to identify CPD needs
- These pages provide guidance and resources that show how the professional standards for teachers can be used to review practice and identify CPD needs.
- The national occupational standards: guidance on how these can be used with support staff in your school
- This site explains the national occupational standards and how they can be used to support CPD activities.
- The HLTA standards: pages from the TDA website outlining the professional standards for higher level teaching assistants
- The professional standards for higher level teaching assistants (HLTAs) set out what is expected of teaching assistants working towards HLTA status. They can be used with staff to identify CPD needs.
- Performance management: pages from the TDA website with extensive guidance on performance management and the link to effective CPD
- These pages provide guidance and resources to support performance management and highlight how the performance management process should include access to CPD and other support that teachers need to do their jobs effectively.
- How to address the link between performance management, school improvement and other processes: a ‘how to’ sheet from the TDA with guidance on performance management implementation
- This ‘how to’ sheet presents key points to help you and your school consider performance management implementation. (PDF, 71 KB)
- The career development framework for school support staff: pages from the TDA website to help you identify appropriate training and qualifications for this group of staff
- A framework to help local authorities and schools identify appropriate training and qualifications for school support staff. It also shows progression opportunities for different occupations in the school workforce.
- Collaborative CPD: reviews exploring the impact on teachers and pupils of collaborative CPD and the processes needed to make it effective
- These reviews from the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre compare the impact of collaborative professional development with individual activities. There are some useful tips on setting up processes to support collaborative CPD and ensuring it is sustained over time.
- Support staff case studies: how to implement CPD programmes for support staff
- Case studies from schools in Hertfordshire where support staff performance management and CPD have been implemented. These provide practical examples to help you set up a system in your own school.
- Performance management support and materials: resources to help your school implement performance management for the whole school workforce
- Guidance and resources including a series of ‘how to’ sheets to help you and your school think about performance management implementation.
- Support work in schools (SWiS) qualification: guidance and information to help support staff taking national qualifications
- Information to help support staff who want to take SWiS qualifications. These national qualifications provide flexible and accredited training that can be tailored to various support work roles.
- Development opportunities for school business managers: information on national qualifications for support staff with financial or business management responsibilities
- Developed by the TDA and the National College for School Leadership, the bursar development programme offers two qualifications accredited by the Institute of Administrative Management. You can use this information to support the professional development of administrative staff who are new to the role, or those with more experience.
- Higher level teaching assistants (HLTAs): guidance to help you support staff progress to HLTA status
- Extensive guidance on the HLTA role and what you can do to support staff to progress to HLTA status.
- Candidate Handbook - Gaining HLTA Status: a resource to help you support staff working towards HLTA status
- This comprehensive handbook is designed to help candidates achieve HLTA status. This is a valuable resource to use with staff working towards this qualification. (PDF, 5.25 MB)
- Secondary Science - Subject Knowledge Guidance for HLTAs
- This guidance explains how candidates can gain HLTA status to support teaching and learning in secondary science. (PDF, 465 KB)
- Castle Secondary School in Bristol: a case study about sharing practice through best-practice forums
- This case study is a practical example of how sharing practice can be done through best-practice forums. You could consider this a method for supporting needs in your school.
- Dulwich Hamlet Junior School in Southwark: a case study about the benefits of shadowing colleagues to learn a new role
- Teachers assuming a new area of responsibility shadow colleagues as part of their induction. This case study gives an example of how you can support new teachers with their early professional development.
- London’s Learning school snapshots: case studies demonstrating how small changes in practice can have positive outcomes
- These case studies from London’s Learning provide a number of examples of continuing professional development practice from schools in London. Sections 3.2 and 3.4 are particularly useful for supporting CPD needs.
