The UK Teaching Profession CPD and Professional Learning System follows an annual cycle aligned with the academic year, providing a structured yet flexible framework to plan and record your professional learning.
You can log activities at any time — from whole-school training days to self-directed study — and generate professional summaries that support your performance management, appraisal or career progression discussions.
Your school is central to your professional learning journey.
The system allows you to share your CPD record with line managers or senior leaders, enabling them to review progress, support goal-setting and align your learning with whole-school and trust priorities.
This CPD system supports the professional frameworks that guide teachers across the UK:
- Teachers’ Standards (England)
- Practising Teacher Standards (Wales)
- GTCNI Professional Competences (Northern Ireland)
Each CPD activity can be linked to one or more key areas of professional practice:
- Professional Values and Personal Commitment
- Professional Knowledge and Understanding
- Professional Skills and Abilities
Recording CPD in this structured way creates a clear evidence trail of your professional engagement and development impact.
Your CPD record supports annual appraisal and performance management by providing ready-to-use reports of your professional learning, reflections and outcomes.
You can demonstrate how your development activities contribute to pupil progress, leadership growth or career advancement.
An Activity represents a single learning instance — such as a training course, workshop, peer observation or independent study.
Each activity is logged using a flexible template, categorised by Learning Method (e.g. Structured, Collaborative, Self-Directed) and linked to the relevant professional standards.
This helps visualise how your professional learning is distributed and where future development might be focused.
We hope you find this CPD and Professional Learning system a practical and inspiring partner in your professional journey — supporting reflective practice, collaboration and the ongoing enhancement of teaching and learning across the UK.