When TDT first launched in 2012, the mission was clear – to promote and encourage effective professional development in schools. Founded by David Monis-Weston, a teacher himself, TDT understood that one of the ways to help teachers thrive and children succeed is to facilitate access to effective, meaningful CPD throughout their careers. At the time, no other organisation was flying the flag for effective CPD, or focused on raising awareness of the impact it could have on school improvement.
For the last fourteen years Team TDT has worked hard to deliver the charitable mission, working with thousands of schools, collaborating on and producing research, advocating at policy level and learning from teachers, leaders and partners who have given us their time, their trust and their honest feedback. Including you.
The journey has taken us further than we ever imagined. We shaped the Standards for Teachers’ Professional Development. We reached over 10,000 school teachers and leaders. We delivered NPQ programmes to 7,000 participants. We launched new thinking on appraisal, cultures of improvement, professional learning and the teaching of teachers, a discipline we’ve been proud to name Didagogy.
And now our mission takes us somewhere new. We are joining with the Chartered College of Teaching, the professional body for teachers, which will take forward our work and mission, helping it to grow at scale, embedded in the institution that exists to serve the profession for the long term.
This is a carefully made decision. TDT and Chartered College of Teaching have been intertwined since before the College launched in 2017. We share values, history and an unshakeable belief that what teachers know and how they learn matters enormously for them, and for every child they teach.
You can read the official statement here.
All ongoing NPQ programmes will be completed and our frameworks, research and ideas will live on within the Chartered College of Teaching’s work. The mission we started with will continue, at a greater scale than ever before and there’s still a long way to go. Nearly 40% of teachers and leaders still say CPD has not clearly improved their ability to perform their role, and only 1 in 4 feel it adequately considers the needs of students.
Please look out for more information from the Chartered College of Teaching in the coming weeks.