CPD

Mr Ben Slater is the Deputy Headteacher at Swallow Dell and is actively involved in developing teaching & learning (T&L) across the school.

Mr Slater sends out weekly "MiniCPD" T&L blogs to staff which are then followed up in staff meetings.

These are shared here:

MiniCPD 2025-2026

MiniCPD 1 First week reflections

MiniCPD 2 powerful levers of learning Explicit instruction 19.9.25

MiniCPD 3 checking for understanding

MiniCPD 4 Spacing and interleaving

MiniCPD 2024-2025

 MiniCPD 1 6.9.24 Recap of INSET

MiniCPD 2 adaptive teaching 13.9.24

MiniCPD 3 vocab and substitution tables 20.9.24

MiniCPD 4 27.9.24 pre teaching vocab example

MiniCPD 5 Parents evenings 4.10.24

MiniCPD 6 handwriting and metacognitive talk 8.11.24

MiniCPD 7 check for understanding revisit 15.11.24

MiniCPD 8 whiteboards theory

MiniCPD 9 behaviour and relationships cluster 6.12.24

MiniCPD 10 behaviour conference

MiniCPD 11 INSET and staff meeting discussions

MiniCPD 12 cold calling and question structure

MiniCPD 13 TPS

MiniCPD 14 TPS scaffolded talk

MiniCPD 15 MWBs -AfL

MiniCPD 16 Spring 2025 recap

MiniCPD 17 science of reading pt 1 9. 5 .25

MiniCPD 18 Science of reading pt 2 16 .5 .25

MiniCPD 19 Science of reading pt 3 23.5.25

MiniCPD Summer Term 2023-2024 

• minicpd 1 19 4 24 The learning model download_for_offline
  download_for_offlineminicpd 1 19 4 24 The learning model
• minicpd 2 26 4 24 simple questioning techniques download_for_offline
  download_for_offlineminicpd 2 26 4 24 simple questioning techniques
• minicpd 3 3 5 24 Check for understanding download_for_offline
  download_for_offlineminicpd 3 3 5 24 Check for understanding
• minicpd 4 10 5 24 Process questions download_for_offline
  download_for_offlineminicpd 4 10 5 24 Process questions
• minicpd 5 17 5 24 modelling small steps download_for_offline
  download_for_offlineminicpd 5 17 5 24 modelling small steps
• minicpd 6 24 5 24 recap and metacognitive talk download_for_offline
  download_for_offlineminicpd 6 24 5 24 recap and metacognitive talk