Education and training services

Tender description

This tender seeks to establish several Practice Development Groups (PDGs) in nine regions across England. It is a new ETF programme designed to promote practitioner-led, collaborative professional development across the Further Education and Training sector. PDGs consist of action learning sets of practitioners who work together on a short-term, small-scale project to improve an aspect of their teaching, learning and assessment over a 4-month period. Each successful tenderer would be expected to run two rounds of PDG’s per academic year (October-January and January-April). It is envisaged that the successful tenderers will act as a hub and set up 8-10 groups (4-5 per round) with group facilitators who will support participants in running action learning sets. The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) is seeking up to nine tenderers to lead its Professional Development Groups (PDGs). This programme is funded through our grant from the Department for Education (DfE). Improving the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in maths and English is a high priority for the DfE and the ETF and the PDGs are designed to complement ETF’s wider maths and English offer. Participants of PDGs will seek to develop an aspect of teaching, learning and assessment to enhance their teaching of English or their embedding of maths or English into other programmes of study.