Leading & Managing Continuing Professional Development
Developing People, Developing Schools
- Sara Bubb - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
- Peter Earley - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Changes include:
- expanded sections on the professional
development of support staff and the
wider school workforce (particularly
important in the light of workforce
remodelling) and the evaluation of CPD
- more on making sure that professional
development has an impact, and
provides good value for money
- the common core of skills and
knowledge for the children's workforce,
the new standards for qualified teacher
status, induction, threshold, excellent
teachers and advanced skills teachers as
well as those for higher level teaching
assistants.
Drawing on the latest research, the contents include:
- a clear explanation of CPD and latest
developments;
- practical tips on how to lead and
manage CPD for a range of staff in
schools - identifying training needs,
designing and implementing
programmes and evaluating their impact;
- detailed guidance on CPD for staff at
different stages of their careers.
Written in a clear readable style it covers the latest standards and offers examples of current good practice. It is an essential professional reference for all those responsible for leading and managing professional learning in schools (headteachers, deputies, CPD and staff development coordinators) and Local Authorities (LAs). It will also prove invaluable to training providers and universities.
Praise for the first edition:
‘Peter Earley and Sara Bubb bring together, in a very accessible way, theoretical and practical aspects of CPD and suggest how leadership and management can be applied in this vital area of staff development. This book will help co-ordinators and school leaders to develop their most important resource - the people who work with the children’ - Richard Stainton, Education Journal
‘The most obvious target user for the book is the (not rare) person suddenly hoist with the staff development responsibility petard: but, thoughtfully used, most staffrooms will include several people who could benefit from thinking about its contents and putting some of the ideas into practice' - British Journal Educational Technology
‘This book is a welcome and practical guide to the wealth of publications on Continuing Professional Development… [M]akes an excellent contribution to the current and widening debate on the nature of Continuing Professional Development. For School Leadership Teams it is an essential resource and reference for the managing of professional development and learning. It also serves as an excellent practical guide, and CPD coordinators reading this book will find themselves questioning and as a result developing their own practice. The book is written in accessible language using believable case studies to illustrate the wealth of research that has been carried out. The deeply embedded notion among some teachers that professional development consists of the one day course is challenged, and the reader is left in no doubt as to the range of opportunities that exist and need for them to be harnessed in order to ensure school improvement. The book is will surely act as a catalyst for the review and development of CPD in schools' - Stephen Merrill, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, British Journal In-Service Education
'A practical guide to all aspects of professional development which ought to be in the possession of every professional development coordinator in every primary and secondary school in the land - and their colleagues in leadership teams' - Tim Brighouse, TES Friday Magazine
This is useful as an introduction to CPD
