The focus of all of the team’s work is on building professional development capacity for CfE at individual, school and authority level. all of our work is designed to improve pupil learning by building this capacity.
Currently we promote and support the delivery of Curriculum of Excellence by:
- Leading the CPD Managers Network, arranging meetings, leading the Planning Group, sharing, discussing, developing practice, researching, etc
- Developing, piloting, evaluating and launching innovative practice in CPD and leadership
- Building capacity within schools and authorities for collegiate leadership
- Creating and sustaining links with and among CPD stakeholders and multi-agency partners
- Advising and guiding educators on issues relating to CPD
- Responding to emerging issues in a range of ways including research, piloting, organising focus groups, collecting interesting practice
- Identifying and leading high-value CPD and leadership activities
Planned areas for further development in 2010 / 2011:
CPDScotland, the website, has been given a bit of an overhaul in recent weeks to make sure it can keep up with the pace of the work of the CPD Team and the CPD Network. You will still find links to CPDFindand our email bulletin but you will find a brand-new section entitled What we do.
The What we do section is designed to provide concise summaries of the many CPD projects underway. Down the right hand side of each of these pages you will see a couple of feeds which will keep you posted on the latest news from the CPD team blog and opportunities from CPDFind which are relevant to each area.
Don’t forget the CPD-focussed, professional communities on Glow starting with CPDCentral (needs a Glow password)
We would love to hear from you on how we can improve the national CPD conversation!
It was great to see friends from North Ayrshire again today. Pam Dunsmore, Gillian Hamilton and Lorraine Facchini. That’s Gillian and Pam in the picture (as Lorraine had left before I remembered to get the camera out!) Some of their remits have been changed since my last visit but all of them are still passionate about CPD. Among the topics we discussed were; CPD on Glow, a local version of CPDFind, allowing for CPDReflect in PRD policies, how best to share practice in CFE and the EAC Critical Skills programme.
I have spent many an enjoyable afternoon and evening with colleagues around Scotland and beyond. I always promise the participants a copy of the presentation and a note of the online CPD links we explore in each session.
I am delighted to be able to join you here today at the 2nd Scottish Government International Summer School on School Leadership. The excellent turn out during the summer holidays is a clear indication of the significance that this event has for educational leaders. I am pleased to see that we have wide representations from within schools (headteachers, deputy headteachers, principal teachers, chartered teachers and classroom teachers) and from local authorities and other stakeholders. I am also glad that the summer school has again been able to attract interest from abroad. I am sure you are all enjoying your week – it certainly looks an interesting, varied and challenging programme. I want to do two things as I speak to you this afternoon.
I am on my way to Dunbar Grammar to help with the start of the CPDReflect pilot. Brave and kindly souls from Dunbar Grammar, St Gabriel’s Primary and Musselburgh Grammar (our good friend Ollie Bray who so kindly blogged from the Summer School last year) will assemble this afternoon to be the first of many to use this innovative toolkit.
I am very grateful to Kirsty Robertson and Ruth Munro of East Lothian Council for their support and to Graham Wilson and Dominic Torrisi and all the other ‘computer-whisperers’ at LTScotland and 3T who pulled rabbits out of hats in the last few days!
Look out for more posts on progress with the pilot here.