What is CPD?

Complete the sentence on your mini whiteboard

Compare your answer with what others have written

CPD is ….

Recording CPDPeer learning follow up

Objectives

In this session we will:• consider what is recognised as CPD by the

Institute for learning• see, try out and start using the new CPD record

form• review CPD activities this term

If we have time…• think about how to build on this term’s activities

in the coming term

Institute for Learning

What are the requirements?

• ‘demonstrate a commitment to Continuing Professional Development’

• 30-hours CPD per year

• The IfL promotes a CPD model based on reflective practice

What do they think CPD is?

CPD is defined as any activity which has an impact on your teaching.

It should not be limited to attendance on structured courses; rather it should include a range of professional development activities to balance all of a teacher's commitments.

From FAQs on IfL website

From CPD Information page of IfL website

Which of these are CPD?A discussion about a student’s behaviour in class with another colleague over lunch in the canteen devising strategies for dealing with it.

Reading an article in the Guardian about changes in Further Education funding.

Observing a colleague’s lesson.

A team meeting where a group of teachers share a form with drop-down boxes for ease of report writing.

An idea you have for creating some new learning materials for your subject area.

Attending a driver improvement course as required by the authorities after jumping a red light.

An accredited course in learning how to teach numeracy run by South Bank University.

An external training course updating your professional/vocational skills. e.g. A snap-on tester course.

How can this be so?

Almost anything we do in our professional

lives could be considered CPD but we

need to reflect on its impact for it to be

genuinely developmental and

record these impacts if it doesn’t lead

to an accredited qualification.

Here comes a handy diagram

Context

Appraisal or Review

Peer

LEARNER

External Inspection

Self Assessment

Policy Initiatives

External Networks

Professional Knowledge

Curriculum Networks

Emerging Technology

Professional Body

Membership

Support Agencies

Organisational Priorities

Teaching & Learning

Professional Knowledge

Emerging Technology

Professional Body

Membership

Awarding Bodies

SSCs

Subject

SpecialismDual Prof

P1 P2CPD

A Model for Professionalism

Summary of handy diagram

Try for a balance over time between

• Subject specialism updating • Teaching and learning development• Context specific training

(NB: these are referred to at ‘tags’)

You don’t have to balance them all in one year, but over time.

Link to SCAT Training course

What have you done this term?

Task 1• Quickly write CPD activities you have done on

post-its. Work in groups if it helps or individually. Tell your partner how these activities have ‘impacted on your teaching’

Task 2• Open the CPD record form on the intranet or

SCAT Training Programme VLE course and start your CPD log.

(refer to example for ideas about what to write)

Finally

Talk to someone else in the room and decide:

• How and when you are going to finish reflecting on this term’s CPD;

• What CPD activities you would like to undertake next term – What training do you want the college to provide?– What peer learning activities you want to experiment

with?– What external training would you benefit from?

Please let us know what we can do to support your CPD