How to use this Teacher’s Resource as CPD

We regularly hear from teachers that the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) they feel they get the most out of is face-to-face training. However, we also hear that not all teachers have the time or budget to get out of the classroom, so here’s some handy suggestions and information about how to use this teacher’s resource for your own professional development. After all, we are all lifelong learners!

Teaching skills focus

We have created a new ‘Teaching skills focus’ feature that appears once every chapter, covering a different teaching skill with suggestions of how you can implement it in the teaching of the topic. From differentiation, to assessment for learning, to metacognition, this feature aims to support you with trying out a new technique or approach in your classroom and reflecting upon your own practices.

Try it out once per teaching topic, or when you have time, and develop your skills in a supported and contextualised way.

Approaches to learning and teaching

Our teacher resources now contain guidance on the key pedagogies underpinning our course content and how we understand and define them. You can find detailed information for you to read in your own time about active learning, assessment for learning, metacognition, differentiation, language awareness and skills for life taken from our ‘Approaches to learning and teaching’ series.

Why not try reading each support document alongside the relevant Teaching skills focus for an extra bit of bedtime reading?

Teaching activity ideas

This teacher's resource provides plenty of engaging teaching ideas - from suggestions for starters, mains and plenaries to NRICH project guidance. You can choose what works best for your learners.

We want to include you in the Cambridge community of teachers. In this new resource, we have utilised up-todate pedagogy and our research in schools to cater to teachers and learners. Our authors are skilled teachers and we hope you enjoy their suggestions for activities to engage your learners.