Professional development and CPD can benefit your staff, your pupils and your school as a whole – providing you can engage staff and highlight the positive impact of their growth. Sisra Observe makes it easy to create a culture of continuous learning, improvement and reflection without the burden of paperwork.
Sisra Observe can help your school develop a professional learning and reflection culture for all staff members, free of time-consuming paperwork. Staff can be empowered to take ownership of their personal and professional development, and get impactful insights aligned to their goals, and the goals of the school.
No longer does CPD have to feel like a burden that teachers could do without. With Sisra Observe, it can compliment their existing work and become a positive, constructive process:
Encourage a school-wide learning network based on organisational, departmental, and personal collaboration, including the ability to explore shared knowledge and insights.
Set your goals and quantify developmental progress at individual staff, department and organisational levels.
Enable continuous professional dialogue with staff, and give them opportunities to improve their skills and job satisfaction.
Utilise our example templates or implement your existing processes in digital form, and streamline your admin tasks with simple and editable templates so that more time can be spent on strategy.
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If you need more information on the importance of professional development and CPD, our FAQs will be able to answer any questions you have.
There are many ways of participating in professional development. These can include lesson observations, research, mentoring, training, teacher performance management and other similar measures. More specifically, continuous professional development (CPD) is how teachers improve their understanding of education delivery, honing their skill sets, and meeting changing student needs.
Whether a newcomer to the profession or a veteran with years of experience, professional development for teachers is important. It enables staff to hone existing skills, pick up new ones, or explore qualifications that help them keep their knowledge up-to-date.
Continuing professional development is a way of helping teachers constantly update their skill sets, progress their careers and ensure a quality of education. It includes general guidance for teaching and learning approaches, and subject-specific support for individual teachers, on an ongoing basis so that the quality of teaching the school provides can be maintained.
CPD is hugely beneficial as a part of wider teacher performance management. It can help support better pupils outcomes, and help teachers develop better skills that can encourage them to further their careers.
Planning continuing professional development for teachers doesn’t have to be complicated. A good plan will encompass assessment, identification, planning, evaluation and measurement, and be tailored to the needs of individual staff members.
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