CPD Resource Bank

Important Area

Books in Staff Room

External Links

Questioning

• ‘Questioning’ by Walter Messa

• Great Teaching: The Power of Questioning – Blog by Tom Sherrington
• The Questioning Collection – Series of Blogs by Alex Quigley

Middle Leadership

• ‘The Art of being a Brilliant Middle Leader’ by Gary Toward, Chris Henley and Andy Cope
• ‘Brilliant Teams: What to Know, Do and Say to Make a Brilliant Team’ by Douglas Miller
• ‘Legacy: what the All Blacks can teach us about the business of life’ by James Kerr

• ‘How great leaders inspire action’ – TEDTalk by Simon Sinek (The Golden Circle and Why?)
• Visible Leadership with Drew Povey – Becoming Educated Podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)
• Gareth Southgate: Lessons in Leadership

Engagement and Behaviour Management

• Running the Room by Tom Bennett
• When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour by Paul Dix

• Making it Better for Boys with Graham Goulden – Becoming Educated Podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)
• Being a Transformative Teacher with Hywel Roberts – Becoming Educated Podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)
• Top Ten Tips for Behaviour Management – Blog by Alex Quigley
• Behaviour Management: A Bill Rogers Top 10 – Blog by Tom Sherrington (a little bit outdated but lots of great strategies)

The Science of Learning

• ‘Make it Stick’ by Peter Brown, Mark McDaniel & Henry Roediger
• ‘Sticky Teaching and Learning: How to make your students remember what you teach them’ by Caroline Bentley-Davies
• Retrieval Practice: Research and Resources for every classroom by Kate Jones

• Metacognition and Self-Regulation – Education Endowment Foundation
• Dual Coding with Oliver Caviglioni – Becoming Educated Podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)
• Implementing, Embedding and Reflecting on Retrieval Practice with Kate Jones – Becoming Educated Podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)
• Metacognition: a webinar with Jennifer Webb (scroll down about half way)

Feedback

• Teacher Feedback to Improve Pupil Learning – Education Endowment Foundation
• Verbal Feedback with Sarah Larsen – Becoming Educated Podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)
• Marking Crib Sheet & Whole Class Feedback – Blog by Mr Thornton Teach
• Stop. Peer Assess. Progress – Blog by Mrs Humanities

Literacy

• Closing the Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley

• Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools – Education Endowment Foundation
• Tutor Reading Programme with Josie Mingay – Becoming Educated Podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)

Expectations

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh

• Teaching to the Top: Attitudes and strategies for delivering real challenge – Blog by Tom Sherrington

Pace

• Strategies to Increase Pace – Blog by Tom Needham

Subject Knowledge

Coming soon from your SPLs

Scaffolding and Modelling

Rosenshine’s Principles in Action by Tom Sherrington

• Gradual Release of Responsibility (I Do, We Do, You Do) – Webinar by Doug Fisher & Nancy Frey
• I, We, You (Examples) – Blog by Mr Thornton Teach
• Don’t Be Afraid of Live Modelling – Blog by David Lowbridge-Ellis
• Modelling and scaffolding: a deeper learning curve – Blog by Debbie Coad

Promoting Progress

• Boys Don’t Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools by Matt Pinkett
• Responsive Teaching: Cognitive Science and Formative Assessment in Practice by Harry Fletcher-Wood
• Mindset: The New psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

• Making Kids Cleverer with David Didau – Becoming Educated Podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)

Effective Use of LSAs

• Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants Online Course – Education Endowment Foundation