Uniting everything that the research shows is needed to
Bridge the gap between theory and classroom practice
Gain deep
Classroom Insights:
Securely capture video to gain deeper insight into the relationship between teaching and learning in your classroom. Use our tools to deconstruct and analyse or share the video with peers or coaches to gain feedback and different perspectives.
Define Informed
Development Goals:
Based on your chosen development focus and insights gained from your classroom practice, we’ll support you to identify those strategies that will make the biggest difference for your learners.
Better understand
Teaching Theory & Models
Get 24/7 access to the theory and research behind important teaching strategies alongside video exemplifications of real teachers modelling these strategies in real classrooms. All of our learning modules are closely aligned with the ECF, the CCF and NPQs.
Follow a Personalised
Development Pathway:
Whether you follow a coaching, collaborative or self-reflective route to meet your goals, we’ll provide step-by-step guidance and insights into your progress. Your pathway will connect you with other professionals across our network of schools, and give you access to external coaching if required.
How it works
UnityPD is a unified professional development solution for teachers at every stage of their career. Leveraging powerful video technology, UnityPD brings together everything research shows is needed to make a difference in classrooms, from evidence-based theory & models, to developing powerful techniques and supporting effective transfer to practice.
Available learning modules
- Review Sweller’s work on cognitive load (CLT).
- Explore what implications this has for working memory.
- Develop your understanding of how CLT can help us tailor our instruction.
- Consider how you can scaffold learning so all students can make progress.
Oracy
- Review Voice 21’s research on oracy skills and why they are vital.
- Explore what implications this has for our practice.
- Develop your understanding of what effective learner group talk looks like.
- Discover some practical ways to scaffold classroom dialogue.
- Review research from Dylan Wiliam and Hattie and Timperley about what effective formative assessment looks like.
- Explore what implications this has for our practice.
- Develop your understanding of how oracy and dialogue, questioning and feedback all link together.
- Discover some practical strategies for giving whole class feedback and activating students as self-regulated learners.
- Read what experts like Tom Sherrington and Robin Alexander have to say about questioning
- Explore what implications this has for working memory
- Develop your understanding of how CLT can help us tailor our instruction.
- Consider how you can scaffold learning so all students can make progress.
- Listen to Clive Hill on why this element of teachers’ practice is so vital
- Read about Doug Lemov’s work on using a warm/strict behaviour strategy
- Explore how restorative practice can help build relationships with Mark Finnis
- Consider why rewards and sanctions are important with behaviour expert, John Bayley
Learning
- Review the EEF’s research on what makes effective group work.
- Explore what implications this has for our practice.
- Develop our understanding of how cognitive load can be minimised during collaborative learning opportunities
- Discover some group work strategies and how cooperative learning links to them.
Practice
- Refresh and develop your understanding of reflective practice;
- Learn how to use video to underpin reflective practice;
- Access opportunities to reflect upon your own classroom practice and make incremental improvements;
- Create a plan to implement your reflective practice around a specific focus.
Coaching
- Deepen your understanding of the theory behind instructional coaching
- Learn how to use video to support coachees through the various stages of instructional coaching, whether you are modelling practice, observing and providing feedback or engaging in coaching conversations
- Join regular webinars to explore underlying pedagogy, engage in real time with other instructional coaches and share experiences
- Access opportunities to reflect upon your own coaching practices and make incremental improvements.
Support you can count on
UnityPD provides the tools. Making the most use of them in service of your learners requires an incremental strategy that develops trust, reflective skills and collaboration. Our consultants are here to support you every step of the way.
We’ve worked with thousands of schools over 15 years to perfect this strategy.
