Teacher Development Trust
| Founder | Mark McCourt, Martin Post, Robin Shlinklert, David Weston |
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| Type | Registered Charity |
| Registration no. | Charity ref 1147447 |
| Focus | Education |
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Area served
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United Kingdom |
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Key people
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David Weston, Chief Executive Sir John Holman, Chair of Trustees Lord Andrew Adonis, Honorary President |
| Website | http://www.TDTrust.org/ |
The Teacher Development Trust is a UK charity which works to raise awareness of the importance of professional development for teachers and other education professionals.
Founded by teachers in London in March 2012, the Trust promotes access to evidence-based, high quality training through its nationwide programmes.
Teacher Development Trust mission statement:
The Trust also states that it aims to promote types and characteristics of teacher professional development proved successful by "strong international research".
Chief executive David Weston has said:
In April 2012 the British government closed the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), the national body formerly responsible for teachers’ training and professional development.
In response to the planned closure, Teacher Development Trust was founded by teachers as a new agency aiming to support teachers’ professional learning.
Teacher Development Trust currently runs two nationwide programmes alongside its ad hoc consultancy services.
TDT Advisor is the Trust’s professional development database. It provides listings and ratings for professional development training courses, consultancy, and other services.
TDT Advisor was launched in 2012 and is free of charge to providers and users.
Users are able to review courses and resources they have used. This has been compared to the "TripAdvisor" style of rating, referring to the popular site’s effective use of user generated content.
In January 2013, a partnership was set up between Teacher Development Trust, Education Endowment Foundation and Sutton Trust. As part of this partnership, GoodCPDGuide professional development listings are aligned with the topics listed in the EEF-Sutton Trust Teaching and Learning Toolkit. This Toolkit summarises research to provide "guidance to teachers and schools on how to use their resources to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils."
All TDT Advisor users must agree to the site’s Code of Practice. Teacher Development Trust, EEF and Sutton Trust, undertake joint random quality sampling.
In July 2013, Teacher Development Trust launched the Network (formerly known as the National Teacher Enquiry Network (NTEN)).
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