CPD Team

Regular readers of this blog may recall that we undertook to build an online community for those teachers (such as supply teachers) who want to keep up to date with their professional development. I am pleased to say that the community is now live. It’s called CPDStepIn.

It currently includes the following features:

• a discussion area with chat, forum and web meeting tools
• regular CPDMeets (see example programme here)
• a place to share resources and links
• advice on PRD and examples of free, online CPD on Glow and beyond
• a place to express views
• an up-to-date  feed of teaching posts from MyJobsScotland.com.

Who is CPDStepIn for?

The CPDStepin community is for colleagues who have full GTCS registration but who are not ‘attached’ to a local authority. This includes:

• colleagues leaving their probationary year who do not yet have a full-time post
• colleagues on the supply list
• colleagues who have problems accessing PRD and CPD through school and local authority mechanisms
• colleagues taking a leave of absence but who want to maintain their skills and knowledge
• colleagues teaching abroad but who intend to return to the Scottish education system

How do I join CPDStepIn?

• If you have a Glow user ID and are likely to keep it for the foreseeable future, join CPDStepIn here. See this CPDAnswers post if you need help joining a Glow group.
• If you don’t have a Glow user ID or are about to lose it, see this CPDAnswers post for how you can get one
• probationer colleagues, should see this CPDAnswers post here for more details

The National CPD Team are grateful to LTScotland for their support in this important venture.

Please help spread the word about CPDStepIn.

… join the discussion on this topic in CPDCentral …

Tags: cpdstepin, online communities
Categories: online CPD