CPD Team

The Learning Rounds report provides a comprehensive overview of the range of engagement which the CPD Team, Education Scotland has enjoyed with establishments, schools and local authorities. The team is very appreciative of the opportunties to colloborate with colleagues as the model has evolved across a range of settings. We are also very aware that Learning Rounds is featuring in self evaluation and professional development activities across the country and would be delighted if other experiences could be shared on the Learning Rounds Community LINK.

GTC Scotland has launched a consultation on a proposed scheme for Professional Update.

You can view a position paper on the GTCS website along with the consultation which will run from Wednesday 1 February to Wednesday 7 March 2012. The scheme is a direct consequence of the implementation of Teaching Scotland’s Future.

The key purposes of a system of Professional Update for teachers are defined as follows:

• To maintain and improve the quality of our teachers and to enhance the impact that they have on pupils’ learning
• To support, maintain and enhance teachers’ continued professionalism, and the reputation of the teaching profession.

The results of this consultation will have a big say in the future of PRD, the way we evidence impact of CPD on learning and the nature of the online profile (also a TSF recommendation), please get involved!

Happy New Year to all our readers!

This is just a brief post to let you know that the online CPD offerings from the CPD communities and Glow TV get started again next week. Here are some of next week’s highlights

Monday 16^th Jan at 4pm. CPDMeet43 – Maths and interdisciplinary learning.

This one is brought to you from the Numeracy Team on behalf of the CPDStepin community. More details at http://bit.ly/cpdmeet43

More online CPD including challenges, thought-pieces, Journey to Excellence resources and recorded CPDMeets at http://bit.ly/onlinecpd

By the way, CPDMeet43 comes ‘made-to-measure’ from a suggestion by a member of the CPDStepin community through our CPDRequest service. Any member of a Glow CPD community can order their own, free online CPD!

See http://bit.ly/cpdrequest service for more details

Get the lates news and updates from CPDLead here in the January newsletter.

If you are a leader of CPD in your setting and aren’t yet a member of CPDLead – what are you waiting for?! Have a look at our online community and sign up – it’s simple and it’s free! http://bit.ly/cpdlead3

This is a guest post from Sarah Burton of Education Scotland

In this video Laura Compton from the Learning and Teaching Development Team in West Lothian explains how they changed the West Lothian Glow area to make it easier for practitioners to communicate with other practitioners, pupils and parents across West Lothian.

Click here visit West Lothian’s Sharing the Learning Blog.

To find out how the blog was created click here.

This is a guest post by Jean Ward of Kirkwall Grammar School, Orkney

Jean Ward, DHT at Kirkwall Grammar School in Orkney has been making good use of our CPDShorts by creating an innovative programme of lunchtime sessions based around them.

The Glow CPDShorts – thought pieces on current issues in Scottish education – were held on four successive Wednesdays at lunchtime; all staff were invited to bring their lunch. These sessions are quick and informal – in order to make the most of time available the sessions are “flipped” with some suggested advance reading or watching.

Jean has kindly shared her programme with us. CPDShorts are freely available to all members of CPDCentral, so if you are a CPDLeader in your school, why not try them out as part of your collective CPD plan and get some lunchtime learning going on!

Wed 2 November. CPDShort 3 – Advancing Waves – what should education be about?

Presenter, John Connell

Wed 9 November. CPDShort 13 – Coaching and mentoring in the context of PRD 

Presenter – Bob Cook’s paper on GLOW and the following YouTube links:

http://bit.ly/cAGz6f http://bit.ly/tTXqR8 http://bit.ly/s0X5cV

(or just ‘search’ coaching and mentoring on YouTube for many more excellent presentations for discussion)

Wed 16 November.  CPDShort 8 – Sharing – the moral imperative

Presenter – Dean Shareski

 Wed 23 November. CPDShort 4 – Motivating all learners

Presenter – Alan McLean

POSTPONED DUE TO INTERNET GOING DOWN!

Although each meeting attracted only a small audience, it was important to those who came that they could share discussion in an informal setting. It was noticeable that most participants were from smaller departments with limited opportunity for professional dialogue.

Please get in touch if you would like more details.

Jean Ward

jean.ward@glow.orkneyschools.org.uk

We’re pleased to say that the programme of CPDMeets will be restarted with an offering from the Stepin community.

On Thursday 1st December at 7pm two of the mentors for this community will lead a session on using Glow in the classroom. You will be in the very safe hands of some expert practitioners here, so please come and join them as they share a bit of their Glow magic! Some of you may have seen Olivia Wexelstein talk eloquently at SLF in September about the amazing work her primary learners have been doing using Glow for projects, blogging and portfolios, and Caroline Breyley from Shetland uses Glow regularly with her school to forge and maintain local and international links.

Sign up as usual to this opportunity on Glow http://bit.ly/cpdmeet41

PS. You can find a number of recorded CPDMeets and other online CPD on Glow here http://bit.ly/onlinecpd. Might be worth a bookmark on your browser

The post in which CPDCentral welcomes its 700th member and launches a free, CPDRequest service!

CPDCentral membership reached the 700 mark yesterday. Our 700^th member is Joe Kane (a thoughtful and innovative faculty head from John Ogilvie High School in South Lanarkshire whom I have also had the pleasure to meet). Among many other things, Joe is interested in harnessing the power of a learning round to continue to embed learning through technology in his school.

To celebrate our 700th, we are offering our 1% CPD service, CPDRequest.

The National CPD Team at Education Scotland will arrange CPD for you on any topic, for free, if you can get 1% of the CPDCentral membership to join you in this topic. Here’s how it works:

• you come up with a topic and its likely impact on learning where you are
• 6 other CPDCentral colleagues join you
• we source an interesting practitioner in your topic area
• we arrange an online CPD opportunity for you (usually a CPDMeet)
• the CPD is made available to all CPDCentral members through our online CPD catalogue

Oh, and for goodness sake, don’t tell a soul. We’ll be snowed under with requests for all this relevant CPD with real impact on learning!

Remember, 7 is the magic number!

We need your wisdom! Think of all the ideas, insights and interesting CPD practice that are hidden away in your brain, computer or local web sites.  Bring them to the fore for the benefit of all Scottish educators!

Here’s how. Take yourself along the Share-in page on CPDCentral on Glow. Sign-in and get ready to share  at 10am on Thursday, 20th October.

CPDStepin is still going strong!  This CPD Community on Glow is for supply teachers and others who may not be able to access CPD and PRD through the usual channels. The community is facilitated by  CPD Team associates and CPD Team advisers and supported by Susan Lafferty of the National CPD Team at Education Scotland.

In the video below, Anne McGhee, CPD Team associate, chairs a discussion with CPDStepin colleagues and mentors which features the benefits from membership of the community. Enjoy!

Remember,

• If you are a supply teacher and want to join CPDStepin, then see this link here. If you don’t have a Glow username, we can help with that
• if you have mentoring or other skills that can support CPDStepin colleagues, please drop us a line at stepin@educationscotland.gov.uk