Continuing Professional Development Opportunities


Critical Skills CPD events and support programmes are transformational experiences that are designed and run by skilled teaching professionals across the UK. Incorporating a wide range of highly effective learning and teaching strategies, the Critical Skills Programme supports the sustained development of learning environments that motivate and engage both staff and pupils.A list of our future open institutes can be found on the events page.

Our CPD Programmes will:

  • Be tailored for your requirements and tackle your specific development focus.
  • Enables teachers to develop advanced teaching skills
  • Promote a deeper understanding of essential knowledge.
  • Focus on the identification of quality criteria for the assessment of pupil progress in all areas of the curriculum
  • Develop key skills of problem solving, decision making, critical and creative thinking,
    communication, management, organisation, leadership.
  • Develop fundamental attitudes - lifelong learning, self-direction, quality working,
    ethical character, collaboration, curiosity and wonder, community membership.
     

 


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Level One and Level Two

address:

  • Assessing Pupil Progress for a subject and skills based curriculum at each phase
  • Classroom management
  • An understanding of formative assessment strategies and practical tools and techniques which inform curriculum planning

Flyers:  Level One  Level Two


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Senior Leadership Events

focus on:

  • Promoting strategies for collaborative whole school leadership
  • Leading curriculum developments
  • Supporting CSP practitioners in the classroom
               


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Designer Workshops

Bespoke training to meet specific development needs and interests including:

  • Formative Assessment
  • Behaviour & discipline
  • Creativity
  • Policy development
  • Phase or subject specific events

 


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Taster Day


Can be arranged for organisations that would like to gain something of the 'CSP Experience' before committing to full training. Supporting CSP trainees in the classroom.