Cambridge Professional

Development

Summer SONG Yang

Professional Development
Manager, East Asia

Cambridge Schools conference

Hong Kong
May 2017
“Every teacher needs to improve, not because
they are not good enough, but because they
can be even better.”

Dylan Wiliam,
Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment, IOE, UCL
The plan for this session…
Get set!
Space for subtitle 20pt
Know your teachers and know your learners?

Get ready! Developing with Cambridge

Presenter’s Name
Job Title
Opportunities we provide to your teachers.
Date
Various range of Cambridge PD Program/activities to support PD in your
school.

Go!
Exchange
Whole school PD system - PDQ
 Know your learners

What Cambridge teachers have prepared our

learners? – view from HEI
Know your learners
 Know your learners

Cambridge teachers have done well to prepare

their students in...

• Having in-depth knowledge of their subject

• Presenting reasoned explanations, understanding
implications and communicating them logically and clearly

• Making good judgements, recommendations and decisions

• Thinking logically and present ordered and coherent

arguments
 Know your learners

Compared to other qualifications, Cambridge students

stand out at…
Thinking logically and presenting ordered and coherent
arguments

Solid subject knowledge for further development in university

Making good judgments, recommendations and decisions

Presenting reasoned explanations, understanding implications

and communicating them logically and clearly
 Know your learners

If our teachers can prepare students more in…

• Apply their knowledge and understanding to new and familiar

situations
• Have strong essay writing skills
• Think critically
• Actively engaged in group discussion/work
 Know your teachers

PD systems your teachers may not like like…

Evaluation is good, We had many

School has given us Our evaluation
but I found one thing individual training
clear and strict system is clear and
made me not so sessions. As a new
rules of evaluation. fair. But we have to
comfortable. If I teacher, I hope a
I have been very input too much
couldn’t do well in system can include
well managed, but details, and
the evaluation, I will this together and let
don’t feel well contribute too much
not receive a me know where I
developed. time in evaluation
satisfactory bonus. am. meetings.

Cambridge says…

A good PD system The process is

aims to manageable and
improvement Systems work much Program works supports teaching
rather than holding better when they better than rather than
teachers to motivate. individual activities. becoming a burden
account. that hinders it.
 Know your teachers

Model of Teacher
Evaluation System
and a sample of
evaluation form
 Developing with Cambridge

What PD opportunities Cambridge provide to

teachers?
 Developing with Cambridge

Various Form of PD Program and Events

Over 80 f2f subject training events every year in East Asia.

Enrichment Training in pedagogy.

Subject Network – Subject Café in East Asia.

Demo class, Lab Safety experience sharing, exchange opinions

Casual atmosphere and build up subject network.

Developing with Cambridge

Supporting
individual
teachers with
their subject
specific
classroom
practice

Supporting
schools to
transform
learning
 Know your teachers

Localized Professional
Development Activities

Cambridge Chemistry Café, Apr

2017 at Qingdao Malvern College

Luhe International Academy, Beijing,

Periodical 6, Apr 2016, Fang Ling
 Developing with Cambridge

Accreditation of Cambridge Trainer CPD

CPD
Accredited
Cambridge
Observation trainer
Shadowing
and
CPD
reflection
Online CPD
induction
course
CPD
Selection
event
 Developing with Cambridge

First Trainer Recruitment Workshop in China,

March - April, 2017
 Developing with Cambridge

Join us

www.cie.org.uk/trainerrecruitment www.cie.org.uk/teaching-and-learning
 Get Ready!

Group activity

What barriers and challenges have you faced in developing a

teacher development programme in your school? Please list
two.
Use the flipchart paper to capture barriers and challenges your
table identifies.

An opportunity to discuss and share what is effective

professional development.
Effective professional development
 is integrated into the everyday life of the school and the
teacher
 builds on teachers’ prior knowledge and experience
 offers opportunities for reflection and learning from experience
 encourages and supports innovation, collaboration and peer
learning
 helps practitioners to develop their own thinking through
critical engagement with the ideas of others
 supported by quality facilitators, mentoring and engaged
leadership.
 Cambridge PDQs - essentials
What are the areas of focus?
Teaching & Learning
Educational Leadership
Teaching Bilingual Learners
Teaching with Digital Technologies

What is the qualification and assessment structure?

 Cambridge PDQs - essentials
Who are the qualifications for?
Practising teachers and education leaders

Who designs and teaches the Cambridge PDQ programme?

Cambridge schools or training providers can apply to become
a Cambridge Professional Development Centre

We train and accredit a Programme Leader from each centre who

 designs the programme using the Cambridge PDQ framework

 runs the programme to meet the needs, priorities and local context of
the school, within our guidelines and quality assurance procedures
 What are the requirements to be a programme leader?

A Programme Leader for the Cambridge PDQs must have

a nationally recognised teaching qualification (e.g. PGCE or DipEd) or a
Delta qualification (Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other
Languages)
a minimum of five years’ teaching experience
a minimum of two years in a position of responsibility for teacher
development
evidence of competence in their chosen specialism
PDQ information www.cie.org.uk/pdq
 Next steps…

1. Needs and capacity analysis

2. Decide on your PD strategy To register your interest in becoming a

and adoption model Cambridge PDQ Centre

http://www.cie.org.uk/cambridge-
3. Include all stakeholders professional-development/professional-
development-qualifications/centres/
4. Identify key personnel

5. Agree outcomes and

measurement model
 Who to Contact?

For centres in East Asia:

Summer Song
Professional Development Manager, East Asia
Cambridge International Examinations
Song.s@cie.org.uk

For centres in the rest of the world:

Esther Chesterman
Education Manager, Cambridge Professional Development Programmes
Cambridge International Examinations
Chesterman.e@cie.org.uk
 PDQ in our schools

Beverley Ross,

Deputy Principal of ULink Guangzhou

College, Guangzhou, China

(Beverley is to put a bio here. Summer to

introduce.)
Thank you

Contact us on:
info@cie.org.uk