Empowering Educators: Making CPD Work in Today’s Classrooms

In a rapidly evolving educational landscape, the intersection of innovative technology and professional learning is more critical than ever. Vickie Bacon Apple Professional Learning Specialist for UK&I explains how best to support educators to confidently achieve mastery of digital tools in the classroom.

Educators come to work everyday ready to teach and help students realise their potential, and they deserve the best tools to do so. One powerful tool that’s reshaping classrooms across the globe is iPad—not just as a device, but as a driver for deeper engagement, creativity, and pedagogical transformation. When paired with high-quality continuing professional development (CPD), MCC Digital’s iPad class sets offer a compelling opportunity to enhance both teaching practices and student outcomes.

Are you considering including technology in your education setting but are unsure of how to start?

People are the difference:

Sceptical colleagues can be as influential as early adopters.  Ensuring purposeful, strategic and impactful pedagogical support for all, will get the best possible outcomes from your whole learning community, through the integration of meaningful and inclusive digital technologies.

Engaging in Apple Professional Learning involves providing personalised support, coaching and mentoring on an ongoing basis. As Lead Apple Professional Learning Specialist (APLS) for the UK, it has been my privilege to work alongside a wide variety of schools and education settings to plan for, deploy and facilitate high quality professional development. From this experience I have learnt a few invaluable lessons on how to develop teachers to use digital tools effectively.

Future Ready Skills:

Ongoing and adaptable CPD is key and builds a firm foundation to sustained success. Alongside purchasing a class set of iPads, CPD should be seen as essential in order to foster a culture of growth, empowering educators to explore and innovate with confidence. With Apple Professional Learning you are assured of sustainable change through a supportive shared experience:

• Build confidence and align technology with curriculum goals

• Explore strategies for digital inclusion and equity using accessibility features

• Enhance classroom management by utilising digital tools to minimise distractions to focus on learning

• Tailor subject specific learning effectively by discovering, understanding and integrating innovate ways to learn.

• Personalise and empower all learners to overcome barriers in a safe environment

Invest in your educators. Unlock Potential:

When educators are supported to use iPad with intention, learning is transformed:

• Personalised learning pathways which positively impact progress

• Improved learning skills in creativity, critical thinking and problem solving with apps and tools which support growth and innovation

• Dynamic platforms which foster collaboration, ensuring students are encouraged to reimagine learning in a considered and responsible way.

• Discerning, informed and world ready digital citizens.

Not only will staff be attracted to a setting that offers ongoing bespoke support but the teachers who develop invariably want to remain at the school. Recruitment, retention and educator empowerment. Taking advantage of the opportunity to pursue multiple pathways of development feeding into a culture of life long learning.

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