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!

Please free welcome to participate in the Glow meet and join our new community. Don’t worry if you can’t participate this time as the drop-ins will be taking place every month. You can also post to the CPD meet pages at http://bit.ly/dgcmeet2 and make use of other online CPD on sustainable development education at http://bit.ly/dgcshort1

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

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

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.

The Health and Wellbeing Team are looking forward to spending a day with 150 NQT’s. We have presentations from two Head Teachers about how they lead health and wellbeing in their schools and much more.

We will be launching our hwb-cpd community and are encouraging all participants to sign up throughout the day.

Anyone can sign up for a priority place for more Health and wellbeing events happening in early 2012.

To add to the share area click here

To set an intention click here

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

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

Here’s how

1. log into this page on Glow ( the shortcut is http://bit.ly/sharein) before 4.30pm on November 22nd
2. click the big, green Share Now button

3. fill in a form for every item you want to share (you can attach documents or weblinks to the form)

4. stop when you’ve run out of wisdom or your fingers get sore!

5. the shared items appear on CPDCentral I-share area

Refinements

1. some of us will be ‘hanging out’ from 4pm onwards in the a CPDMeet room (if you want a chat or help)

2. you can add a targetted keyword (hashtag) to your shared items which will add them directly to other communities linked to CPDCentral. Hover for example . You will find a list of the current hashtags here