Questions about the Professional Development poster

What’s on the Professional Development poster?

Changes practice against Changes nothing, side by side. Changes practice: Sustained over months, not hours; Changes practice: Focused on one subject and technique; Changes practice: Includes practice and expert feedback; Changes practice: Grounded in a credible mechanism; Changes practice: Protected time to embed it; Changes nothing: A single inspirational speaker; Changes nothing: Generic pedagogy for all subjects; Changes nothing: New initiatives before the last embedded; Changes nothing: Awareness raising with no follow-up; Changes nothing: Follow-through left to volunteers; One-off training days almost never change classroom practice, whatever the evaluation…. Educational reference. Well-designed development has among the best evidence in the sector, and most delivered development is not well designed.

Who is the Professional Development poster for?

Professional Development belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning policy & systems can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Professional Development poster?

Use it when planning a CPD programme or judging one you are asked to attend. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Professional Development belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Professional Development?

Accountability, Class Size and Who Decides The Curriculum sit alongside Professional Development in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AccountabilityClass SizeWho Decides The Curriculum

Is the Professional Development poster free to download and print?

Yes. Professional Development downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Professional Development poster print at?

Professional Development is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Professional Development loses nothing.Printing guide