CT2L Certificate in Strategic CPD Leadership
Suitable for: School leaders, trust leaders (including headteachers, deputy/assistant headteachers, executive headteachers, CPD leads and other roles leading CPD within or across schools). Practising teachers and middle leaders should undertake CT2 Expertise in Teaching Certificate instead.
Evidence consistently tells us that access to high-quality teaching can make the greatest difference to pupil outcomes. This means that one of the most powerful things we can do as a leader, is to invest in developing teachers and high-quality teaching in our schools.
The Certificate in Strategic CPD Leadership will enable you to deepen and extend your knowledge of effective professional development practice and consider how you can strategically embed evidence-informed approaches to teacher professional development in your context. You’ll undertake a rigorous evaluation of professional development in your setting, examining it through a range of lenses, including:
- Understanding staff CPD needs
- Approaches to developing internal expertise
- Use of external expertise, research and evidence
- Opportunities to maximise time for CPD
- Evaluating the impact of CPD
Over a period of around three to six months, you will engage with key education research to build your understanding of the evidence-base, using this alongside the findings from your evaluation to inform strategic development activity with the goal of strengthening and refining your school or trust CPD provision.
In undertaking this course, you can feel confident that your CPD strategy supports school development and is effective in empowering teachers to deliver high-quality teaching that improves outcomes for their students.
Please note that in undertaking this assessment unit you will be required to utilise your own network to undertake a peer review activity which will provide an additional layer of support and challenge, facilitating your learning and enabling you to gain deeper insights into your school/s practices. This should ideally be another school leader, or alternatively another professional (e.g coach, mentor or school improvement partner).
A school leader undertaking this assessment unit would typically be an executive headteacher, headteacher, deputy headteacher, assistant headteacher, director, head of school, or other similar role, where they have either whole-school or cross-school responsibility.
£179.00
Start date:
Anytime
How long should it take to complete this assessment unit?
3-6 months.
Available credits towards Chartered Status:
20
What does the Assessment Unit include?
As part of the supporting content for this assessment unit, you will have access to a short online course that will help you to familiarise yourself with the evidence around teacher professional development and guide you through the process of evaluating CPD. You will also have access to full assessment guidance, exemplars and reading lists, as well as a CPD Review tool.
What does the assessment cover?
Once you have explored the learning content provided, you will undertake an initial review of CPD practice in your context. You will identify an aspect of your school/s CPD practice to refine or develop, engaging with research and evidence to inform your CPD strategy moving forward. You will reflect on your progress and share your learning.
You will then submit a portfolio for formal assessment, including an evidence summary around your chosen area of CPD, two written reflections based on your self-evaluation and peer review activity, and a recorded presentation.
Please note that as part of this assessment you are expected to seek external input to provide an additional layer of support and challenge, facilitating your learning and enabling you to gain deeper insights into your school/s practices. Ideally, this external input will take the form of a peer-review conducted by another school leader. However, you are welcome to draw on expertise from another professional, such as a coach, mentor, school improvement partner, or from an organisation that provides services in this area. You will need to make your own arrangements for this element of the assessment, and are encouraged to draw on your wider networks, Chartered Teacher (Leadership) candidate community, or to utilise Chartered College of Teaching Learning Partners, where available.
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