Is Master Teacher CPD approved?
MASTER TEACHER and is an online hands-on capacity building training and fully meets standards of effective CPD.
MASTER TEACHER and is an online hands-on capacity building training and fully meets the UK and international standards of effective CPD.
The training has key components necessary to provide robust and exceptionally high quality CPD regardless of location.
MASTER TEACHER is highly interactive and includes the following components:
- mimics vocational training structure with workplace hands-on implementation component being the priority
- bite-size video lessons with examples of best practice - peer learning & peer discussions
- case study analysis
- reflective tasks and accounts
- demonstration of best practice
- peer and self-observations
- collaborative tasks
- hands-on continuous on-the job application
- practical tasks and activities to complete
- personal portfolio building: work products and strong evidence of professional practice
- advanced evaluation and progress measuring to help participants continuously achieve desirable results, identify their achievements and address developmental needs
- online Expert Support Group to offer timely and personalised feedback
- bite-size video lessons with examples of best practice - peer learning & peer discussions
- case study analysis
- reflective tasks and accounts
- demonstration of best practice
- peer and self-observations
- collaborative tasks
- hands-on continuous on-the job application
- practical tasks and activities to complete
- personal portfolio building: work products and strong evidence of professional practice
- advanced evaluation and progress measuring to help participants continuously achieve desirable results, identify their achievements and address developmental needs
- online Expert Support Group to offer timely and personalised feedback
Below is a list of typical criteria for effective CPD and detailed explanation how MASTER TEACHER meets them all.
1. Actionable & Engaging
- Master Teacher has been designed with hands-on application in mind. It’s a journey packed with practical tasks that teacher complete at their workplace in between their training sessions.
- Once teachers implement the changes, try and test new approaches and activities, they are able to move onto the next lesson.
- Trainees are taught how to be tool-independent and the program equips them with ready-to-use actionable tools, strategies and approaches they can effectively and immediately use anywhere in the world.
- The training is aligned with teachers day-to-day duties based on practical tasks that teachers complete at workplace between training sessions.
Teachers will be asked to:
- implement new activities, try variety of methods, tools and approaches at their workplace with children or/and colleagues
- create their own teaching and learning resources,
- design learning environments and play spaces
- and observe and evaluate the changes implemented.
2. Structured
Master Teacher training is based on unique and easy to follow building blocks that guarantee comfortable and clear framework to all participants.
- Short bite-size video input serves as a presentation of learning material accompanied by real live peer discussions and reflective activities that help trainees arrive at their own conclusions based on their professional observations and experience.
- Each session is followed-up with hands-on implementation at teachers’ workplace that offers trainees space to work with presented approaches directly.
Finally, their observations are brought back to the training room again where teachers shared their experiences with other trainees.
- Each session is followed-up with hands-on implementation at teachers’ workplace that offers trainees space to work with presented approaches directly.
Finally, their observations are brought back to the training room again where teachers shared their experiences with other trainees.
3. Collaborative
- The training is based on real life in-house sessions and trainees work together to achieve expected milestones and outcomes, they participate in peer discussions, reflective activities and share their experiences with others
- During the implementation phase trainees are encouraged to work together with their colleges to implement strategies presented in the course and to complete their hands-on projects
- Participants can ask for and receive peer feedback during the implementation phase
- Trainees share their results and achievements with other participants creating a culture of ongoing collaboration during the training and in a dedicated online Expert Support Group
4. Appropriate, Inclusive, Accessible
- The training is aligned and can be easily mapped with major international educational frameworks
- It allows participants to build a robust portfolio of high quality evidence of their learning and development.
- Trainees apply methodologies, approaches and activities and adjust them to their local reality making it possible to use them anywhere in the world with the same efficiency
- Trainees design learning materials using local resources only and reuse them flexibly to support hands-on and cross-curricular learning.
- Training content considers geographical and cultural differences and promotes adaptation and flexibility.
- Everyone regardless of their background and academic proficiency can participate in our Master Teacher training. This is because our training materials have been designed with simplicity and practicality in mind.
- The strategies presented in our training materials can be easily replicated by participants leaving them empowered and ready-to-work anywhere in the world.
- It allows participants to build a robust portfolio of high quality evidence of their learning and development.
- Trainees apply methodologies, approaches and activities and adjust them to their local reality making it possible to use them anywhere in the world with the same efficiency
- Trainees design learning materials using local resources only and reuse them flexibly to support hands-on and cross-curricular learning.
- Training content considers geographical and cultural differences and promotes adaptation and flexibility.
- Everyone regardless of their background and academic proficiency can participate in our Master Teacher training. This is because our training materials have been designed with simplicity and practicality in mind.
- The strategies presented in our training materials can be easily replicated by participants leaving them empowered and ready-to-work anywhere in the world.
5. Outcomes, Reflection, Setting Goals for Growth
MASTER TEACHER uses advanced evaluation tools to track progress that allow teachers to identify and set their individual developmental goals.
- The training has been planned to last for months and encompasses different levels of advancement, trainees can easily spot their areas of development and plan how to address them and achieve measurable goals.
- Because their learning journey evolves around hands on practical implementation of learned concepts in their actual work, teachers will be able to easily identify their own strengths, receive instant feedback from children and peers will be able to plan adjustments to improve their own work.
- Each video lesson based on specific clearly presented learning outcomes that teachers are expected to understand and work towards by completing tasks, activities, taking part in discussions, implementing changes at their workplace either on their own or with their peers
- The training offers consistent reflection practice on many different levels. Each lesson consist of numerous Peer Discussions to help trainees share their existing knowledge is experience and learn from others.
- Hands-on sessions allows teachers to reflect on how they new skills, activities offered to their students and the learning resources and play spaces they created affect their own practice and their students learning.
- Then, by coming back to the training and exchanging and contrasting their observations with others teachers’ achievements participants have a chance to develop confidence about their own practice and their achievements.
- Teachers create a robust portfolio of their own learning journey collecting strong and high quality evidence and work products such as videos and photos of the changes they implemented, structured they designed and build, observation records, reflection tasks etc.
- When your trainees complete our training at your centre, they will have strong evidence of the quality of their work, what they have learned, how their skills have evolved, and what they have implemented.
- Your teachers will also receive a Certificate of Completion outlining the core training content.
6. Sustained Learning, Learning for Life
Master Teacher has been designed to offer consistent and sustained training for months thus guaranteeing teachers constant growth.
- MASTER TEACHER is not just a one time CPD - it’s a journey that take teachers from one stage to another allowing them to grow together with the training.
- The training lasts approximately from 3 to 9 months and the duration depends on the intensity of the training sessions planned and provided by local facilitators.
- It has been designed to offer teachers plenty of time to adopt and incorporate new material into their everyday work, adjust it to their local reality and grow together with their own changing needs and their students'.
- The scope of the material is vast so teachers progress from simpler to more complex contexts which allows them to confidently and continuously expand their skills.
- The training lasts approximately from 3 to 9 months and the duration depends on the intensity of the training sessions planned and provided by local facilitators.
- It has been designed to offer teachers plenty of time to adopt and incorporate new material into their everyday work, adjust it to their local reality and grow together with their own changing needs and their students'.
- The scope of the material is vast so teachers progress from simpler to more complex contexts which allows them to confidently and continuously expand their skills.
7. Support & Evaluation
Master Teacher has been created by professional teacher trainers, assessors and evaluators who incorporated a whole range of practical, advanced and very effective evaluation and assessment methods into the training to make sure trainees achieve measurable results.
- The training is based on approaches used in vocational training in the UK so that the trainees can build a comprehensive portfolio of strong evidence throughout the training. The evidence such as work products, photographs and videos of their progress, observation sheets, reflective accounts, professional discussions can be used to demonstrate their CPD, their skills, knowledge and understanding.
- The training content, curriculum and learning outcomes have been mapped with national standards for vocational qualifications in Children’s Learning and Development and Playwork (CCLD) and national requirements Early Years Foundations Stage Framework. It has been verified against major international standards and frameworks and will help teacher cover most if not all of their national requirements.
- Peer evaluation and self evaluation are strong components of the training to inspire learners to support each other, rely on each others’ professional experiences, inspire and offer guidance and empowerment.
- MASTER TEACHER offers access to feedback from training authors/assessors who constantly monitor progress of participants and through a dedicated online support group provide professional evaluation of actual case studies of those taking part in the training.
8. Affordable & Sustainable
MASTER TEACHER will help you implement and sustain positive affordable and long-term transformation and create long-lasting frameworks that will work for children and teachers.
- The strategies we share can be effectively replicated using locally available resources at a very low cost, and can be used by teachers even in remote areas.
- With a focus on locally available resources, you will be able to provide quality education regardless of the location.
- No further teaching resources, expensive equipment, technology or software are required to start training teachers in your outreach.
- All you need is access to the Internet, a laptop or a projector, and an office or a classroom to run your training sessions. And you will get to decide how much you wish to charge your customers for participation.
- To make sure the trainees everywhere in the world have the same opportunities to access the program, pay for access in their local currency and as much as they would for locally available training, we created an affordable membership-based model where only the training providers are charged for access to our training. This way, you can offer great value for money and accessible high quality training to your local community.
- With a focus on locally available resources, you will be able to provide quality education regardless of the location.
- No further teaching resources, expensive equipment, technology or software are required to start training teachers in your outreach.
- All you need is access to the Internet, a laptop or a projector, and an office or a classroom to run your training sessions. And you will get to decide how much you wish to charge your customers for participation.
- To make sure the trainees everywhere in the world have the same opportunities to access the program, pay for access in their local currency and as much as they would for locally available training, we created an affordable membership-based model where only the training providers are charged for access to our training. This way, you can offer great value for money and accessible high quality training to your local community.
9. Relevant & Personalised
MASTER TEACHER promotes personalised learning both on teachers’ level and shows trainees how to offer personalised learning experiences to their students on a daily basis.
- The training promotes flexible learning schedules, the use of local resources, appeals to variety of learning styles, allows plenty opportunities for personalising learning process and setting individual goals.
- The training is fully adjusted to honour various cultural and regional needs, requirement and preferences. The trainees can implement learned strategies in the own time at their workplace and in the manner that is most suitable to them.
- Master Teacher promotes celebration of individual gifts and talents and leaves plenty of space for teachers to adopt their learning methods and tools presented in the training in a manner that best help them work through their own strengths.
- In a dedicated online Community & Expert Support group we present numerous video case studies demonstrating how teachers effectively interpreted the same material in various creative ways and implemented it in their classrooms all achieving the same goals.
10. Expert Knowledge
Master Teacher has been designed by qualified master teacher trainers and assessors/evaluators for vocational and university qualifications in the UK with vast experience in training design, delivery and evaluating and assessing quality of learning provisions and teachers practice against British national standards.
- The authors of the program have more than 25 years of direct experience running their own early years and early primary provisions in the UK, assessing and evaluating the quality of early childhood and early primary education against rigorous British standards.
- They have lived and worked all around the globe for more than 20 years, observing and comparing global standards of teacher training and delivery of early childhood and early primary education.
- They have been invited to numerous international conferences where they presented their expertise as keynote speakers.
- They are authors of numerous publications, articles, books and trainings that have been published internationally.
- You can rest assured that you are in expert hands where you decide to work with MASTER TEACHER.
- They have lived and worked all around the globe for more than 20 years, observing and comparing global standards of teacher training and delivery of early childhood and early primary education.
- They have been invited to numerous international conferences where they presented their expertise as keynote speakers.
- They are authors of numerous publications, articles, books and trainings that have been published internationally.
- You can rest assured that you are in expert hands where you decide to work with MASTER TEACHER.
