ABSTRACT
There are many ways of developing your career. Indeed, this whole business now has its own set of initials (CPD) and there are many formal programmes within schools, local authorities and universities. Increasingly, teachers at all stages of their careers are encouraged to obtain higher-degree qualifications of the sort that would have been considered exotic when I began teaching. Many PGCE students in the UK are now being offered master’s-level credits alongside their initial training, so that they enter the profession with part (or sometimes all) of a master’s degree; and these qualifications are certainly career-enhancing. This is a book about teaching and learning rather than about career structures and, in reaching some conclusions about moving on and getting better, it is to teaching and learning that I want to return. Nevertheless, it’s appropriate to look first (and briefly) at some formal aspects of continued professional development.
