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Ensuring your school's CPD is effective

Ensuring your CPD strategies are effective and make a difference is vital. Sarah Coskeran offers some practical advice for evaluating the impact of three common types of CPD

Evaluating the impact of CPD activities not only allows you to gauge whether or not your professional learning is having a positive impact on pupil outcomes in your classroom – it can also help to identify the particular elements that can be sustained and shared across school to encourage widespread impact in the longer term. There are some key principles to bear in mind:

We have chosen three example CPD activities and suggested some simple tools that you could use to consider the impact of your professional learning.

Direct impact can be difficult to prove, but these tools will give an idea of the difference your CPD is making in the classroom. No single approach is definitive: these examples can be swapped around and adapted as best suits your own CPD.

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