Put your best foot forward with personalised professional learning

By Colin McGill2022-07-11T07:30:00

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Ensure your CPD is tailored to you and your classroom to improve student outcomes

Well-planned, personalised professional development for teachers can have a positive impact on the pupils in our chemistry classrooms. It has the potential to improve outcomes for students, reduce the poverty-related attainment gap and motivate teachers to stay in the profession. Generic CPD has its place, but subject-specific CPD is essential in improving teacher performance and student outcomes, and teachers need to be empowered to tailor their CPD to their individual development needs. In this article, lecturer in education on the PGDE programmes at Edinburgh Napier University Colin McGill looks into this important topic.

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