What are the best models for EdTech teacher training and professional development? Valuable research, effective programmes and successful practices? A lively debate at the ITTE & MirandaNet Winchester Forum 7/8th June 2018 with a panel of speakers and an audience discussing the best ways to support EdTech Teacher Training and CPD. 

‘An obsession with exams is forcing schools to restrict the curriculum and is leading to damaging consequences, say both teachers and parents’. Andy Connell discusses views from the Council for Subject Associations on the narrowing of the curriculum.

An international movement has developed of which ITTE/TPEA is a founder member and ITTE/TPEA has sponsored two international Global Knowledge Mobilisation Summits. This post summarises the rationale and the outcomes of ITTE/TPEA’s work in supporting ongoing professional development for teachers.

Sway Grantham finds that posing the question ‘What is a computer?’ to children across the primary age range initiates some interesting conversations

Martine Mannion, teacher of computing at Wellingborough School and CAS Hub Leader shares practical ideas for combining MicroBits and physical construction across the primary age range.