NCFE's Professional Development Week
Professional Development week, 30 June 2025 - 4 July 2025.
Our Professional Development Week, held from Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July 2025, has now concluded, but the learning doesn’t stop there. Whether you're a teacher, assessor, senior leader or support staff, you can still access the expert-led workshops and taster sessions that took place during the week.
On-demand recordings from this week’s events are available below on this page, so you can continue to explore, revisit, and apply what works best for your setting.
To explore past professional development week on-demand recordings, access the full playlist here: Professional Development Week Playlist
What attendees said
- “Padlet was excellent – clear, visual, and immediately useful in both class and placement contexts.”
- “The Academic Literacy session was short but powerful – we want more like this!”
- “Loved the Edpuzzle session – finally a tool I can see my learners engaging with online.”
- “Useful refresher on questioning – made me rethink my scaffolding approach.”
- “A fantastic session – probably one of the best I’ve had in a while. Gave me some fantastic ideas to support my second year Early Years and Education T Level students.”(Sounds Like Learning – Teaching Through Music)
Watched a session? Let us know what you thought!
If you’ve watched one or more of the on-demand sessions, we’d love to hear your feedback. Your insights help us shape future Professional Development Weeks and ensure our CPD offer continues to meet your needs.
Professional development week July 2025 feedback
What’s next?
Stay tuned for future Professional Development opportunities from NCFE. We’re committed to supporting your growth through impactful CPD, practical tools, and meaningful learning.
On-demand Events
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Raising standards through marginal gains and assessment strategies for excellence |
Discover how WorldSkills UK strategies and marginal gains theory can enhance performance in technical and vocational education. This session helps teachers and assessors reflect on unconscious competence, improve communication of performance expectations, and bring clarity to ambiguous assessment criteria. |
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Quick wins in Teams: using annotations to boost live engagement
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Part of the quick wins for digital engagement in education series. Make your online live lessons more interactive with just a few clicks. Learn how Microsoft Teams' annotation tools can be used to enhance participation, visualise learning, and build student confidence in real time.
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Quick wins with Padlet: capturing reflection and student voice
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Part of the quick wins for digital engagement in education series. |
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Developing academic literacy |
Join us for a practical 30-minute CPD taster session designed to support teachers in helping students develop essential academic literacy skills, from identifying and developing their writing styles, through to practical strategies for better writing. This session will offer quick-win strategies you can apply in your teaching straight away. |
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Once upon a time, teaching - using storytelling as a teaching tool |
“Once upon a time, teaching” explores the power of storytelling as a dynamic and impactful pedagogical tool, across subjects and age groups. Perfect for teachers of all phases and subjects who want to enhance engagement, deepen understanding, and build meaningful connections through narrative. Come for stories, leave with strategies. |
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Quick wins with Edpuzzle: interactive video made simple
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Part of the quick wins for digital engagement in education series.
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Quick wins with Canva: fast design tools for teaching and learning
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Part of the quick wins for digital engagement in education series. This bitesize session introduces Canva for education, explores ready-made templates, and shows you how to collaborate with students or design for display and digital platforms.
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Sounds like learning: teaching through music
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Music isn’t just for the music room, it's a powerful tool for unlocking learning across the curriculum. This session explores how music can enhance engagement, deepen understanding, and support literacy, language development, emotional expression, and even subject knowledge. Learn practical strategies, adaptable activities, and inspiring song-based ideas to bring rhythm and creativity into your teaching, whatever your subject. Perfect for educators looking to make learning more memorable, meaningful, and fun!
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Creating a world that makes space for stammering
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In this bitesize recording, we shine a spotlight on speech disorders, beginning with stammering, a form of neurodivergence that is often misunderstood or overlooked. Rooted in a vision of inclusivity, this recording aims to shift perceptions, celebrate diverse ways of speaking, and foster positive, respectful language around speech differences. We’ll provide a high-level overview of what stammering is, and how it manifests in real-life contexts. Listeners will gain practical strategies for effectively supporting individuals who stammer, whether in educational settings, the workplace, or customer-facing environments.
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Contact us
For further enquiries on Professional Development Week, please contact our Provider Development team at [email protected].