Continuing Professional Development
Learning and development is critical if teachers and leaders are to adjust to rapid changes and movements of a modern world. Kydd et al. (2003) point out that the pace of social, economic and technological change is the reason why all of us must become lifelong learners and why professionals must engage in professional development. However, ensuring that training has a long term impact is not straightforward. In this section, I will discuss some of the issues related to CPD and then offer some solutions and alternatives to the traditional format of delivering training. There is evidence to suggest that after teachers have been teaching for two or three years they begin to plateau in terms of their classroom performance (Allison, 2014). In order to improve practice, teachers need to improve their skills to become an expert. Allison ’s solution to this problem is to provide teachers with a range of CPD opportunities. However Ryan (2008) believes that schools have not y...