Each of our 22 academies is now implementing a localised Professional Development Curriculum Plan, helping them to identify and focus on key priorities through evidence-based PD processes.
What is an ATT Professional Development Curriculum?
ATT PD Curricula are documents developed by academies that describe the prorities for PD and how these will be achieved in their settings. The PD Curriculum is created by Senior Leaders and PD Leads, with input and support from the ATT Institute team.
What’s included in a Professional Development Curriculum?
Each PD Curriculum sets out at least 3 priorities, linking to the aims of our Trust. These will usually be focused around teaching and learning, but may also refer to other areas for improvement, such as culture. In addition, the curriculum will set out a rationale for the selection of each priority, helping colleagues to understand why they were selected, and the research or evidence that informs the chosen approaches.
What Will Be Learnt
Key Terminology
Strategies & Activities
Implementation Outcomes
How Impact is Measured
PD Mechanisms
Our PD Curriculum Plans draw on evidence from the Education Endowment Foundation to incorporate key mechanisms:
Building Colleague Knowledge: Managing cognitive load of teachers and revisiting prior knowledge.
Motivate Colleagues: Evidence informed and from credible sources (internal and external), expected teacher behaviour changes explicitly described, and setting and agreeing goals.
Develop Techniques: Instruction, social support, modelling, monitoring and feedback, and rehearsal.
Embed Practice: Providing prompts and cues, prompting action planning and prompting context specific repetition.
Evaluate Impact of Professional Development: Measures of opinion, measures of knowledge and insight, measures of technique, measures of practice and measures of impact.
