Jo Fairclough an Assistant Headteacher with responsibility for Teaching & Learning, CEIAG and International links at Aldridge School. Aldridge School is a large mixed secondary school and sixth form in Walsall, West. Midlands. Jo started her teaching career as a teacher of history before moving on to be Head of History in a further two schools in the West Midlands. She has been an Assistant Headteacher for one year, and works on a variety of projects involving peer coaching, in-house staff support and developing the use of new technologies in the classroom.
All school leaders want their teachers to have good-quality continuing professional development (CPD) that develops them as individuals and makes a measurable and significant contribution to school improvement. Clearly a number of challenges get in the way for many schools; budgetary and time restrictions being just a few. Furthermore, research from the Teacher Development Trust shows that, at present, the vast majority of CPD is having no impact in the classroom, and too few schools are bothering to check to see how, if at all, CPD is transforming teaching and learning.
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