Continued Professional Development

Supply Desk recognises that continued professional development (CPD) is essential for all teachers and support staff, including supply staff.

Throughout the year we offer a range of CPD courses, which all of our candidates are welcome to attend.

Typically we offer the below courses across an academic year:

• Team Teach – a BILD accredited behaviour support training programme which teaches positive handling strategies for responding to and managing challenging behaviours. Team-Teach training is suitable for teachers and teaching assistants wanting to improve their situation management through risk and restraint reduction, and to increase staff confidence and competence, whilst promoting and protecting positive relationships.
  • Team-Teach training has received the highest level of UK training award: a National Training Award.
  • Team-Team is recognised as the leading strategy for de-escalation techniques
  • Most UK schools welcome candidates who have undertaken Team-Teach training

Learn more about our Team Teach courses

• Safeguarding in Education & Child Protection – all of our candidates undertake safeguarding training to ensure they meet Ofsted requirements.
• De-Escalation workshops – These workshops are designed to help you delve into pragmatic and efficient de-escalation methods that can be applied to assist the young individuals under your care.
• Collaborative courses hosted with Proxima Education – Proxima Education work with leading teacher education providers to develop an innovative, scenario-based approach to training, where teachers are able to practice and receive real-time feedback in a safe environment.
• Cyber Security training from the National Cyber Security Centre – Cyber Security training was designed by the National Cyber Security Centre to help schools protect themselves and their staff and students with the ever-increasing reliance on IT and online systems.
• Online Autism Awareness Course (coming soon)

“The course was absolutely fantastic. Steph and Becca were warm, friendly, encouraging and professional. I love how the course is universal. Working as a small group (10 in total) was lovely as it meant we could all experience the holds and manoeuvres from all perspectives.

Having had a break from the classroom and a crash in confidence, the Team Teach course was a fantastic (and much needed) boost and I now feel more confident in implementing the classroom management/de-escalating techniques taught.

Team Teach is a wonderful programme that does not discriminate against ability… you don’t have to be built like a rugby player to confidently apply the techniques! EVERY educational practitioner should be Team Teach trained and it should be a compulsory unit of teacher/TA training.”

Sophie C Fletcher, Teacher