Continuing Professional Development

At Unity Schools Partnership we work from the principle that effective professional development is an ongoing process rather than a single event. Every interaction is an opportunity for reflection and professional learning. We provide high-quality, evidence-informed, high impact CPD for our own schools and schools that are not part of the Unity family (see below).

Our CPD offer for Autumn can be downloaded here, or continue below to find out our approach to Continuing Professional Development.

CPD for Our Schools

Our trust-wide offer is designed to supplement the wide variety of valuable opportunities provided by individual schools. Collaboration and networking across our schools brings great opportunity for extensive professional development.

We ensure our professional development activities are focused on identified need, aligned to school improvement and appropriately spaced so that individual learning activities collectively reinforce one another and revisit the same messages. In addition, we align with Unity Research School to bring the best bets from evidence ,alongside practice, and supplement experience.

Unity Professional Development

Unity Professional Development (UPD) comprises a blend of initial training, follow-on support, and consolidation activities, involving Unity’s own staff, Research School input as well as high quality external collaboration. We seek to:

• create opportunities for staff to reflect on their existing beliefs and practices
• provide challenge to inspire even more effective practices
• make training interactive, with active learning through observation, meaningful discussion and reflection, demonstration of skills, deliberate practice, and feedback
• focus both on generic and subject-specific pedagogy
• provide structured support to help staff apply general pedagogical strategies to specific subject areas
• use a range of media and delivery approaches, including

Opportunities available and our offer is continually evolving. For further details please contact Helen Main (hmain@unitysp.co.uk) Amid Coronavirus and the interruption to schooling, our digest of free remote CPD and associated extra publications signposts colleagues to valuable opportunities available during the current context.