Support for schools

Whether you are looking for a Cambridge Professional Development Qualification tailored to meet the needs of your teachers, access to past papers or online training for exams officers, we are here to support you with everything you need to deliver our programmes and qualifications successfully.

Supporting schools every step of the way

We provide a wide range of high-quality support for everyone in the global Cambridge community – whether you are new to the Cambridge Pathway, or experienced in delivering our programmes.

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Support for principals and heads

Our regular events for principals and teachers give you the opportunity to build up a strong community of Cambridge schools in your country and internationally. These events include Cambridge Principals Forums and our annual Cambridge Schools Conference. You can also use our social networks and discussion forums to make connections.

Support for teachers

We provide comprehensive support to help teachers deliver our programmes and qualifications successfully in the classroom. This includes curriculum support resources, exam preparation materials and training. Our secure School Support Hub to address the need teachers have for continuing professional development. Each programme is developed and delivered in schools or training institutions by a Cambridge-accredited Programme Leader – so you can develop a programme to meet the particular needs of teachers at your school.

Support for exams officers

Without exams officers it would be impossible to run and administer our exams successfully, so we ensure they have everything they need to run the process as smoothly as possible. This includes an online guide to administering Cambridge exams, free online training, video tutorials and an online tool for exams officers – CIE Direct – so your school can communicate securely with us.

Marketing support

We provide free marketing support resources for open days or parents’ evenings at your school, including posters, PowerPoint presentations, logos, a template press release and photos. All of these can be downloaded from our communications toolkit.

Extra or replacement Cambridge International School wall plaques can be purchased for £50 plus shipping. For more information contact commsplanning@cambridgeinternational.org.

Professional development and training

We are committed to delivering training and professional development through a number of routes to ensure maximum availability of support for teachers in all countries where our specifications are delivered. This will mean that we will be engaged in delivering training online, face to face and via a range of new technologies as these become available. We work to ensure equality of access for all teachers on our qualifications to training and development opportunities, both on subject related and pedagogic training.

School leadership development

Resources and guides

We have produced a series of resources to support the teaching and learning in your school. They explore different aspects of educational practice, from designing a curriculum to improving the quality of classroom activity.

• Implementing the curriculum with Cambridge – practical advice on designing, developing, implementing and evaluating your curriculum
• Developing your school with Cambridge – focusing on classroom-level activity, guidance on improving the quality of teaching and learning in your school.
• Education briefs – a close look at important themes in education, including active learning, bilingual education and assessment for learning.
• Getting started with… – Building on our education briefs, these guides introduce and develop areas of teaching and learning practice, and provide new ideas and approaches that link theoretical understanding with practical classroom application.
• Cambridge School Leader and Teacher Standards – a range of key characteristics and practices that we believe should be shown by effective school leaders and Cambridge teachers.