Curriculum for Excellence places great emphasis and value on partnership working – the CPD Network reflects that in practice. The seminar on the 17 March will profile the contribution from a range of partners who may not have always been recognised as having an impact on the professional development of teachers and support staff, or whose traditional role may have been focussed on colleagues with particular remits : eg pastoral care, additional support needs, behaviour support.
Colleagues from the school library service, social work services, psychological services, the independent and voluntary sector, health and SQA will outline resources and experiences which are relevant to the professional development of all staff in 7 minute presentations which will set the scene for “Open Space” follow up activity of discussion and sharing.
We realise that our sample range is not exhaustive and hope that pre, during and post the seminar colleagues will be able to share similar or different examples from their own authorities. If you have partnership working on your doorstep please share it with us on the CPD blog.
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:
Currently guidance on evaluating the impact of CPD is being written by the National CPD Team. The paper will refer to existing sources of information and provide useful prompts for staff and CPD leaders on measuring impact. Exemplars of good practice are now being collated to support the recommendations being made.
Raymond Young’s stand-in (Con Morris) made a plea for the Standards as a unifying measure for assessing the impact of CPD, but not before playing a version of ‘Call my Bluff’ to see who knew their Standards best!
The attached draft paper from the CPD team considers:
• The importance of self-evaluation to individual teachers, schools and local authorities
• The place of the evaluation of CPD within the overall context of self-evaluation
• Some theory
• The overlap between theory and existing thinking in Scotland
• Five levels of evaluation: how and when applied
• The evaluation of significant inputs made, or of outputs sought only
• Practical strategies in techniques of evaluation, noting those already in use in Scotland
• Some recommendations for action
Please feel free to comment on the blog or directly to the CPD team.
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