CPD Team

Plans are well advanced for our ‘let’s make a fuss of CPD coordinators and other CPD leaders’ campaign at the Scottish Learning Festival. The aim is to give CPD Leaders an opportunity to address their own professional development needs in leading CfE developments.

CPD coordinators, members of the CPD Network, EIS Learning Reps and other CPD leaders from all over Scotland will be getting an email from Margaret Alcorn sometime in June.

The email will explain how to make sure you get that CPD Leader identifier on your Festival registration badge. This identifier will get you access to the CPD Lounge, Magnificent Sevens, CPDAnswers Live, the launch of CPDLead and all the other extras arranged for CPD leaders. We have asked our CPD network to help us contact every CPD coordinator and EIS Learning Rep in Scotland but you can always make sure your name is on the list by:

• registering for the Scottish Learning Festival
• emailing Ruth slfcpd@cosla.gov.uk and ask to be put on the CPD Leader mailing list

We look forward to seeing you there!

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The CPD Lounge will be the hub of the additional activities for CPD coordinators at SLF09. Here you will be able to:

• get a chance to talk to other CPD leaders about the professional learning challenges of Curriculum for Excellence
• take part in the ‘Magnificent Sevens’ (7 minute seminars featuring CPD leaders from all airts and pairts). Come and show us how CfE development is happening in your pairt!
• ask a question of (and maybe even get an answer from ) leading CPD experts in CPDAnswers live
• meet other leaders at our CPD Breakfast (where CPDLead will be launched)
• or just get away from the milling masses and put your feet up and have a refreshment on us!

To get access to the lounge, you will need to have a badge that identifies you as a CPD leader. See the CPD Leaders post for more details.

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Part of the CPD Team offering for the Scottish Learning Festival will be a calendar of 7-minute, lightning presentations to showcase innovative CPD.

Margaret Orr from the CPD Team has assembled  a wide variety of educators. Here’s a sneak preview:

• Graham Thomson (SCSSA) – Leadership of learning in the school
• Marion Morrison (EIS learning rep) – Reflections on Tuscany visit
• Gillian Brydson (Dumfries & Galloway) – CPD impact
• Adam Sneddon (Scottish Screen) – Visual literacy
• Susan Bain (DHT, Lockerbie High School) – Flexible routes to headship
• Ollie Bray (LTScotland) – Personal learning networks
• Julie McCaig (Irvine Royal Academy) – Learning rounds
• Soenaidh Black (Bannerman High School) and Eileen Cummings (Clydebank High School) - DHT experiences
• David Robinson (Open University) – CPD from the OU
• Aileen Spence (LTScotland) – International education
• Janie McManus  (HMIE) – A perspective on CPD for CfE

We will also be ‘Glowmeeting’ as many of the Sevens as possible, so you can access these live on the Glow Intranet. More details on CPDFind soon!

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The CPD team have a ‘help’ blog that helps to answer questions that have been posted about CPD matters, CPDAnswers. Part of the CPD Team offering for the Scottish Learning Festival will include an opportunity to drop into the CPD Lounge and ask a question of a member of the National CPD Team and volunteer members of the CPD Network.

Do you want to know about CfE rollout in other parts of Scotland? Do you want to know about innovative CPD for CfE; coaching, online, action research? Come in and ask!

We may not have all the answers but we are keen to have the conversation and we can make the right connections for you. There is also an option to update the CPDAnswers blog so your question will be recorded for others to benefit!

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Work is underway to build an online, professional community for CPD leaders throughout  Scotland. The community (on Glow) will be called CPDLead and will be launched as part of the National CPD Team offering at Scottish Learning Festival 2009.  CPDLead will be an important tool for us CPD leaders in the professional learning programme in Curriculum for Excellence because it gives us access to the most important resource, each other!

To mark the occasion, we will be having a breakfast event for CPD Leaders on Thursday 24th September.  Keep your eyes on the cpd@slf09 posts on the CPD Team Blog for more information

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It’s good to see the fine CPD work of the EIS Learning Reps from all over Scotland being supported by the Glow team with their very own professional community going online. You can find out more about the launch that took place on Friday 29th May in Glasgow by visiting the GlowScotland blog.