CPD Team

New members of the team, Bob Cook and Catriona Oates, are leading on an initiative to enhance the PRD experience for school staff.  As well as being an area critical to capacity building and leadership development, PRD is, or should be, a celebration of the impact of our new professional learning  and an opportunity to have an in depth professional conversation about our career development and learning needs as we adjust to the demands of Curriculum for Excellence.  It should be a process which we value, which we find supportive and energising and which puts us in control of our development as skilled and informed professionals.  We know this is the experience for many; it should be the experience for all.

The aim is to build upon the findings and case studies contained in the CPD Team’s Draft Paper of 2008 on Professional Review and Development – PRD Study 2008

Catriona and Bob have so far met with 15 of the 18 councils who have come ‘on board’ with this initiative.  An online survey will shortly be available to assess people’s experiences of PRD, both as reviewee and reviewer. 

The next phase will be to support developments at authority level which will feed into a two day seminar in early 2011, by which time we hope to be clear about how we can make a real difference to the professional learning of school staff and the classroom experience for young people.

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