The team have been working to refresh our paper on CPD for Supply Teachers – first published in 2004.
The Cabinet Secretary will launch the paper later this week, along with CPDStepIn (see earlier blog post)
You can access the paper here and CPDStepin here
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:
Innovative and Creative CPD
We asked hundreds of teachers how they selected their CPD – and here’s the top ten answers.
We’d love to hear your views on CPD – complete the CPD Survey here.
You never know, you might be the lucky winner of a £50 book token.
Thank you to colleagues from Scottish Government, the latest to suffer! 
Here is the short version of the updated links.
The Prezi , CPDReflect, CPDFind, Journey to Excellence from HMIE, LeadMeet, Learning Rounds, Twitter
And yet more if you are still awake!
Influences
Collegiality and impact – Richard Elmore’s work is highlighted here
Types of CPD – See a previous blog post on this topic
To find out more about the 4-stage model of CPD, read Margaret Alcorn’s paper on Teachers for Excellence
Seen it, done it
Unconference links - TeachMeet home page, LeadMeet, GregMeet
CPD Team / LTScotland CPD tools and sites
For general CPD information – try CPDScotland
For specific CPD opportunities, try CPDFind
Find out more about CPDReflect here or try it yourself here
To get regular CPD updates subscribe to the CPD team email bulletin
Journey to Excellence from HMIE
Social networking
Read and comment on Ollie Bray’s blog
Some CPD from CPDFind on Social Networking
Follow Margaret Alcorn @cpdc or Con Morris http://twitter.com/cpdscotsman or even CPDFind http://twitter.com/cpdfound)!
Glow CPD links
Find out about Glow in your part of Scotland
Some CPD from CPDFind on Glow
CPDCentral, CPDLead, Staffroom, CPD Challenges, CPDShort from Aberdeenshire
Some more fun stuff for CPD sessions
Random name picker (aka the ‘CPD Puggy’) from @russeltarr
The CPD Team and LTScotland have been listening to CPDFind users and we are happy to tell you about some recent changes to the system:
Look out for the recent posts elsewhere on the CPD Team blog on how to access free CPD using CPDFind.
Thank you all for your support for CPDFind and don’t forget if you want a magic button for your CPD site, just point your browser to this page here!
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 CPDFind and 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.
Oh and Christmas cake (not pictured)!
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.
Here is the presentation
And here are the links
CPDFind, CPDReflect summary, CPDScotland, CPDConfer home page, Information on Glow, Don Ledingham’s blog.
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.
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