ABSTRACT
It is easy as a teacher to feel you are just surviving, but you owe it to yourself and your pupils to continue to develop professionally. Your PGCE year will have given you a good idea about what kind of a teacher you want to be, and some ideas about the kind of teacher you do not want to be. Continuing Professional Development (CPD), at its most basic, is simply the process by which you manage your development nearer to the positive model you want, and try to avoid some of the pitfalls that lie in wait. It is also the way in which you can ensure that your career works out the way you want. Different skills will need to be developed, and different opportunities planned for, depending on whether you
want to stay in the classroom, move increasingly into management or develop your expertise out of schools altogether.
