You may want to being to build your career prospects by undertaking formal CPD and, obviously, you will make enquiries in school, with your Local Authority and any local training providers to see what sort of modules might be available. These will often be postgraduate certificates which will provide credits at master’s level. Undertaking any extra work is a serious business for a schoolteacher, and one important criterion in making any such choice should be that it has minimum negative impact on your professional (and personal) life. So it’s a good idea to look for courses that work through group sessions within your own school. Some sort of school improvement module, for example, is likely to attract colleagues from other departments, and this will provide a local support system. You may well be able to work with school colleagues in terms of research. Similarly, you should seek modules which take account of the work you are already doing. You may be working as a subject leader, or as a training mentor, and often such work, presented in terms of written reflection and analysis, will contribute directly to your CPD. For example, if you are a newly qualified teacher, you can probably take modules in teaching and learning which will, in effect, credit the work you need to do in your induction year. In all cases, I’m suggesting that you keep the CPD as close to home as possible. You are busy enough as it is.