The theme of TDT’s National Conference in January is ‘Unleashing Great Teaching’ and I’m delighted to have been asked to offer the closing keynote. As we know, to truly unleash great teaching in a school, all staff need to feel valued and empowered, continuously developed to be experts in their field.
As closing keynote speaker, I shall be taking the theme of ‘Empowered Staff’ and making the case that if we are aiming to create the conditions for colleagues to feel empowered, there might be an underdeveloped aspect of professional development which might be worth exploring.
I shall be proposing that there might be an additional fruitful lens through which to consider professional learning.
By way of background, I have been thinking about some principles for implementing the curriculum in our classrooms. I have developed three broad rules of thumb about the quality of materials offered to pupils.
