Identifying staff CPD needs
- Admin staff: skills audit Use our template to help admin assistants, finance or office managers review their skills against the ISBL’s standards and identify any actions they need to take.
- Assessing staff phonics knowledge: audit and resources Download and share our subject knowledge audit with staff, and find further resources to help you assess your staff's understanding of phonics.
- Assistant/deputy headteacher: skills audit Whether you're applying for an assistant or deputy headteacher position or looking to progress and develop in the role, use our audit to assess your skills against the standards and identify any areas where you can improve.
- Caretaker/site manager: skills audit Use our skills audit to help your caretaker/site manager identify their strengths and make plans to develop their skills.
- CPD activities for teaching assistants (TAs) Share our audit with your teaching assistants (TAs) to help you identify their strengths and areas where they need more support. Find 4 ways to boost their confidence via targeted CPD in areas such as subject knowledge and assessment.
- Differentiation: audit tools and resources Download our audit to invite teachers to reflect on their use of differentiation in areas such as questioning, resources and tasks set. See if these examples of differentiation strategies could work for you.
- Headteachers' Standards 2020: self-assessment tool Use our template to check your performance against the Headteachers' Standards 2020, and highlight areas for development.
- IT skills audit for teaching staff Spot gaps in your staff's IT knowledge and identify CPD needs to help them deliver high-quality teaching and save them time.
- Literacy teaching: skills audit for staff See examples of literacy skills audits, and get expert advice on auditing staff members’ GPS skills.
- Middle leaders' skills audit Go beyond the minimum expectations of the Teachers' Standards and assess yourself against the skills you'll need to progress in your role as a phase, department or subject lead.
- Primary computing: skills audit Download our subject-specific audit tool to help your staff identify gaps in their knowledge and deliver high-quality computing teaching.
- Primary maths skills audit Download our subject-specific audit tool to help your teachers identify gaps in their knowledge and deliver high-quality maths teaching to all pupils.
- School business manager (SBM): skills audit Use our skills audit to assess SBMs against the ISBL's professional standards, so you can identify areas for development.
- Skills audit for science teaching (primary) Download and adapt our questions to help you audit subject knowledge among your science teachers.
- Sustainability: teaching audit Share our audit tool to find out how confident your staff are in teaching about sustainability. Use the results to plan your CPD and sustainability strategy, and identify sustainability leaders in your team.
- Teachers' skills audit Use our audit to assess your teachers' professional development needs against the Teachers' Standards, so you can plan for the next appraisal period. The audit is up-to-date with the latest Ofsted inspection framework and current thinking around teaching and learning best practice.
- Teaching assistant (TA): skills audit Use our skills audit to help your teaching assistants (TAs) – including those supporting pupils with special educational needs (SEN) – identify their strengths and make plans to nurture their skills.
