Professional Growth
‘Growing Great Teachers’ is what our Trust is all about. Improving and maintaining the highest quality of teaching is at the very heart of the process and together with our Appraisal Policy and CPD programme, we want to continue to develop a culture where we can learn from each other and become even better. The focus is always on ‘getting better’ rather than ‘being good’; ‘Improving not proving’.
Effective professional development is a core part of securing effective teaching. It requires a desire and willingness to continually improve with a shared commitment for teachers to support one another to develop so that our students benefit from the highest quality teaching. We cannot achieve this level of professional learning alone. Our staff commit to active practical and cognitive engagement in order to seek further growth in professional knowledge that provides solutions to the issues we face as teachers. Professional growth is ‘done by’ not ‘done to’ our teachers. The approach that we take helps our teachers become the very best version of themselves; supporting them to make the next steps but also creating a culture that encourages them to stay and grow with us.