Professional Development at Children First
Our Vision
At Children First we are relentlessly focused on pupil outcomes, and we know that there is clear evidence that high-quality CPD for teachers has a significant effect on pupils’ learning outcomes.
Our professional development curriculum is designed to provide teachers and leaders of learning with a package that is in line with the Education Endowment Foundation, ‘Effective Professional Development’ guidelines focusing on:
- The building of knowledge
- Motivating staff
- Developing teaching techniques
- Embedding practice.
We break down our professional learning offer for educators by career phase, ensuring a golden thread of development throughout time with us.
If our teachers are to be excellent educators, they need to be surrounded by a support team that is the very best; so our professional development curriculum provides rich development opportunities for all of our colleagues.
A full induction programme is provided for any new starters and targeted individual development is mapped through the Trust’s annual appraisal scheme.
We want our entire staff team to thrive, being the best, they can, so that we can truly put Children First.