National Professional Learning Updates
For all Welsh Government Updates related to professional learning please see below
Professional Learning Journey
The professional learning journey has been developed to help guide schools through the structural and professional learning aspects of preparing for Curriculum for Wales. It helps you find your way through the different models for professional learning, and plan your own school’s journey.
National Professional Enquiry Project (NPEP)
This programme is supporting a growing network of schools to develop a range of enquiry skills by leading enquiries in their own setting to explore professional learning requirements for the new curriculum.
28 schools from across the region have taken part in the NPEP project during 2022-23. Schools enquires focused on one of four themes ‘Assessment and Progression', 'Re-imagining schooling', 'Inclusion,' 'Pedagogy and Learning’. Click on here to visit our Reseach and Enquiry page. EAS partner schools will be completing a new round of enquiry during 2023-24.
Welsh Government - Policy Insight Events
Since 2020, the Welsh Government have been running ‘Policy Insight Events’ to keep stakeholders up to date with professional learning developments.
The interactive 1 hour sessions are delivered by school practitioners seconded to Welsh Government. They are held virtually and are also made available asynchronously as a video or Hwb playlist. Click below to view recordings of the sessions and access the resources.
29 March 2023: policy insight: Community focused schools (family engagement)
Presentations by Kirsty Davies-Warner, Suzanne Sarjeant. Prof Janet Goodall discusses the Parent Engagement Toolkit.
24 November 2022: policy insight: Community focused schools
Presentations from Kirsty Warner- (Welsh Government), Lindsey Bromwell (Head of Community Schools and Engagement), Dr. Suzanne Sarjeant, Community Schools Advisor (Welsh Government secondee)
7 July 2022: policy insight: collaborative enquiry
In this event you will here about the crucial role Collaborative Enquiry has in developing curriculum for Wales. Presentations from Kevin Palmer (Deputy Director Pedagogy, Leadership and Professional Learning at Welsh Government) and Rhian Davies. King Henry VIII school. Click below to access the playlist.
14 June 2022: policy insight: Digital Professional Learning Journey (DPLJ) official launch
26 April 2022: policy insight: Religion, Values and Ethics (RVE) professional learning resources for the Curriculum for Wales
31 March 2022: policy insight: professional learning update
Learn about the professional learning entitlement and SLO/Wales as a Learning system
3 March 2022: policy insight: diversity and anti-racism professional learning (DARPL)
In this event you will here about the importance of diversity and anti-racism professional learning (DARPL)
Policy Insight: SLO and Strategic Leadership of Pedagogy (1st of July 2021)
In this event you will find out about an approach that is in development to support our reflections on COVID19 within the context of SLO and pedagogy. You will hear from schools and colleagues from other stakeholders on how this tool can support dialogue and reflection as we think about our journey towards our Curriculum for Wales.
Policy Insight: Talk Pedagogy (29th of April 2021)
This event will provide an update on the national exploration of pedagogy. There will be an opportunity to hear from some of the schools involved and receive an outline of planned engagement activity in the summer term. An overview of how we are looking to develop our understanding of the 12 pedagogical principles will also be provided.
Registration form
To access the ‘Policy Insight Events’ live, please complete the online registration form
To view more National Policy Insight events visit the Welsh Government page - Link here
Talk Pedagogy, Think Learning provides a digital space to share practice and support collaboration within and across our schools to share pedagogy and practice.
You will be able to:
find out what others are doing and what is working through sharing practice and being able to collaborate
engage in professional learning opportunities regarding pedagogy and the new curriculum
engage in conversation about pedagogy in relation to blended learning (as one of the twelve pedagogical principles).
‘Talk Pedagogy, Think Learning’ is a place:
'...where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together.'
The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge (Doubleday/Currency, 1990).
Education Wales Podcast
EAS Leads -
Deb Woodward Assistant Director deb.woodward@sewaleseas.org.uk
and Dan Davies Professional Learning Lead Partner daniel.davies@sewaleseas.org.uk
