Impact Toolkit
What is CPD Impact and Evaluation?
Our evaluation and impact tools support you to reflect on your learning from your continuing professional development and plan actions for how you will implement your learning into your schools. They also encourage you to assess and evaluate the impact of your actions, enabling you to evidence and make the biggest impact possible back in the classroom.
On many CPD activities you will be invited to complete a series of steps that mirror the principles of effective CPD and effective evaluation, in order to help you get the most out of your CPD and make the biggest impact possible back in the classroom.
The Department for Education Standard for teachers’ professional development recommends providers make tools available to capture what participants think in advance, and then help those participants reflect, change their practice, and self-evaluate. At STEM Learning, we have been using this methodology for more than ten years.
Why assess the impact of your CPD?
There are many benefits of using our evaluation and impact tools, including:
focussing priorities to support better outcomes for your students,
supporting your professional journey and contributing evidence for your performance management process,
demonstrating impact towards school, college, or departmental priorities,
supporting the cascade of best practice to embed and support colleagues through sharing of strategies and to maximise impact,
encouraging reflections and highlighting future development needs, supporting evidence-based conversations with line managers and senior leaders.
Access your impact tools
You will be sent an email with a link to each step. We’ll help you think about not only your action but how to collect evidence of how the changes you make an impact you, your colleagues, and your students.
To log on to your impact tools please go to your impact homepage and sign in with the same details that you use to log into the website.
