TIPD: Priority Themes

  • Literacy in primary schools;
  • Numeracy in primary schools;
  • Transition from primary to secondary education;
  • Key Stage 3;
  • Teaching and learning strategies (e.g. Language Learning);
  • Raising standards in inner city and rural areas;
  • Turning around schools in challenging circumstances;
  • Special Education Needs (SEN) and inclusion;
  • Gifted and talented pupils;
  • Classroom / Department / Curriculum Management;
  • Benchmarking of school performance;
  • Teachers’ Professional Development & Teachers’ Learning;
  • Productive use of ICT;
  • Citizenship and civic education;
  • Thinking skills;
  • Creativity;
  • Vocational education & alternative teaching;
  • Behavioural Management;
  • Social inclusion and behaviour support:
    • Boys’ underachievement;
    • Working with minority pupils;
    • Truancy and disaffection;

I found it to be an amazing experience both professionally and personally. TIPD provided me with an invaluable international professional development experience that served to further ignite my interest in global education. In this way I aim to extend my professional practice within the USA for the academic year 2007-2008. Kent LA teachers to Virginia, USA

Thinking Skills