CPD Team

In summer 2009, some members of the Glow team and I ran CPDChallenge sessions for LTScotland development officers. Many took up the offer and rose admirably to the challenge! It took the best part of a working day. The format was:

• each challenge was introduced in 5 minutes by a ‘champion’
• participants had a free choice of one or more challenges
• participants worked collaboratively with help from champions if needed
• end-of-session sharing was compulsory and randomly chosen!
• each person had to publish a pledge to change 1 thing in his/her practice

The whole event was supported by the CPDChallenge Glow group. If you log in, you will find:

• a library of challenges with video introductions and self-help support
• resources shared as a result
• pledges made by participants to date
• even guidance on how to run a CPDChallenge event in your area

The challenges have since been used in other events (eg Inverness workshop and Building Windmills in South Ayrshire) and hopefully will be used in many more.

What now for CPDChallenge?

The CPD Team pledge to have a challenge for every week of 2010. We only have 9 in the bank, so that’s 43 challenges to go! We would love to hear from others to help us out! The early challenges are mainly about online CPD but we are looking to widen our horizons. So if you have a good idea for a challenge, contact Con Morris and he will get you started.

The CPD Team is grateful to colleagues from the Glow team at LTScotland (Andrew Brown, Katie Barrowman, Sat Bance and Stuart Oliphant) for their support in this project.

Visit the CPDChallenge Glow group…

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