The National CPD Team are undertaking a review of the Professional Review and Development (PRD) process. We recommend that the Standard for Full Registration be central to this review and the cornerstone of PRD and CPD for the Scottish teaching profession. For some post holders there are other Standards which will be the focus of their PRD but the SFR is the baseline professional Standard and should be placed in a fundamental central position.

‘Good professional review supports and challenges individual teachers, empowering them to seek out, and engage in, appropriate, meaningful and transformative CPD experiences. Teachers should ensure an active engagement in the process to achieve a quality outcome. This can be most effectively achieved where teachers feel fully involved in the process, and supported in identifying and undertaking professional development’.

Occasional Paper 5, PRD, National CPD Team 2006

‘A key pre-requisite is that teachers accept responsibility for their own professional development, for the quality of learning in their classrooms, and for their role in self evaluation and improvement at personal and establishment levels.’
HMIE 2006 ‘Improving Scottish Education’.

Within this context, the National CPD Team have established a PRD Advisory Group to inform on the principles and practices of the PRD process. Visits to local uuthorities and schools has further informed the Group’s thinking with a number of case studies illustrating good practice. Consultation with the national CPD Coordinator’s meeting in September 2007 allowed an opportunity for all authorities to make a contribution to this reflection on PRD. The principles of PRD are clearly seen to be consistent with electronic support through CPDReflect which encourages individual responsibility and ownership of PRD.

It is the intention of the National CPD Team to have draft recommendations with case studies for circulation in January’08.

Any initial comments will be welcomed by the advisory group.

Categories: PRD
Tags: PRD, review