1. DAREDEVIL
CPD
DR SANDRA LEATON GRAY
DEPARTMENT OF CURRICULUM, PEDAGOGY AND ASSESSMENT
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

2. 1. ENCOURAGE TEAM AND
PEER NETWORKING
• Whole school training days
• Collaborative planning and evaluation
• Peer observation
• Visiting other schools
• Attending conferences
• Joint training exercises with other
schools
• Joining teacher networks
• Joining specialist subject
associations

3. 2. YIKES! GO OUTSIDE SCHOOL
COMPLETELY!
• Attend short courses
• Study for higher degrees
• Take part in examining
processes
• Study using online courses
• Take part in secondments,
sabbaticals, exchanges.
• Engage in outreach programmes

4. 3. LET THE PUPILS TEACH THE
TEACHERS
Education
consultants
Villiers Park publication
Activity Report
Exploratory or
research work.
Hockerill publication Inform
Pupils as
researchers.
Learning to Learn Like
Darwin project

5. 4. LEARN SOMETHING
ALONGSIDE THE PUPILS
Pupil/teacher research
collaboration with
teacher as facilitator.
Case study: Villiers
Park Educational
Trust, Pupil/Teacher
residential courses.
Case study: Hockerill
Anglo-European
College Bilingual Ski
Trips

6. 5. USE
MUSIC/DRAMA/FOOD/DANCE/CULT
URE IN TEACHING
• Linking chemistry and dance
to explore molecular
structure of water during
project on the water cycle.
• Preparing historically
accurate foods.
• Composing music using
world music themes and
structures.
• Using gymnastics to
demonstrate cellular mitosis
and myosis.

7. 6. RUN COURSES
OUTSIDE SCHOOL
Forest schooling
Outdoor
classroom
Freedom of
physical
movement
Nature deficit
disorder

8. 7. ASK THE
PARTICIPANTS WHAT
THEY THINK THEY NEED
TO KNOW
• Audit existing provision
• Build future programme in
collaboration with teachers
• Subject-based CPD
• Generic CPD
• Networking
• Career stages

9. 8. LISTEN TO WHAT
TEACHERS SAY
• Travel difficulties
• Timetabling of
events
• Willingness to
sacrifice own time
for CPD
• Teachers’ feelings
of social exclusion
• Resourcing of CPD
• Inequitable funding
• Problems with time
as a resource