Professional Development Guide

Are you thinking about how to support your staff’s professional development?

If so, the EEF have published a new guide to understand components of effective professional development in the early years. It focuses on four key areas:

• Building knowledge
• Motivating staff to adopt and maintain changes to their practice
• Developing specific techniques
• Embedding new approaches.

The guide also includes insights from early years professionals who share how they’ve refined their professional development provision.
 
The EEF, in collaboration with DfE and Stronger Practice Hubs, is also offering early years settings access to several funded professional development programmes. Taking part gives you the opportunity to receive promising professional development free of charge. There’s also a contribution to the costs for staff to engage in training too.

Search your setting to explore opportunities.