5.4 Continuous Professional Development

In this section:
Extensive guidelines and information to support all teachers and school leaders to continue learning and improving their skills throughout their career.

Rules: Continuous Professional Development

Includes: CPD Evaluation and accreditation; Providers; Equal Opportunities The TSC shall serv...

Process: How to enrol for CPD training

For national courses, interested candidates should consult with their superiors, refer to thei...

Process: How to register participation in a CPD training course

The TSC, TTCs or any other provider of CPD must ensure participation in CPD learning events is...

Best Practice: The CPD Cycle

For CPD training courses to be effective and have a real impact on learners and their performance...

Best Practice: How to assess the learning needs of teachers

To be cost-effective CPD should be based on identified needs of teachers and school leaders to im...

Best Practice: Identification of training and non-training solutions

The assigned LNA team or panel should always try to identify the most optimal training solution. ...

Best Practice: Strategies for addressing learning needs

May include: Open (standard courses offered to a wide audience) versus tailored (courses tailor...

Best Practice: How to analyse the cost-effectiveness of alternative strategies

It is essential to assess the cost-effectiveness of alternative learning strategies to achieve th...

Best Practice: How to plan a learning event

The detail required to plan training depends on the scope of the training. There is a big differe...

Best Practice: How to design an effective CPD training course

A well-designed learning event or training course is likely to meet with success. Design is there...

Best Practice: How to manage and administer a learning event

Depending on the size and scope of the learning event one or more competent staff should be in ch...

Best Practice: How to deliver an effective CPD training course

How much teachers participating in CPD training courses and learning events learn ultimately depe...

Best Practice: How to assess effectiveness of a learning event

Participant learning and acquisition of competencies may be assessed through tests such as: Mul...

Best Practice: How to evaluate the results of a learning event

CPD training courses and learning events are evaluated to ensure learning is effective and to imp...

Best Practice: Follow up of a training course

An important dimension of learning is to practice what you have learnt in real life to reinforce ...

Best Practice: Out of the classroom, on-the-job or spare-time learning

Job-based and spare-time learning are low-cost solutions to develop competencies which, if approp...

Best Practice: How to initiate self-directed learning

There are many opportunities for teachers to pursue knowledge and skills outside of training cour...