CPD Team

Regular readers of this blog may recall that we undertook last month to build an online community for those teachers (such as supply teachers) who want to keep up to date with their professional development. I am pleased to say that the community is now live. It’s called CPDStepIn.

It currently includes the following features:

• a discussion area with chat, forum and web meeting tools
• a place to share resources and links
• advice on PRD and examples of free, online CPD on Glow and beyond
• a place to express views.

We hope shortly to incorporate a feed of teaching posts from MyJobsScotland.com.

Who is CPDStepIn for?

If you are on the supply list, or have problems accessing PRD and CPD through school and local authority mechanisms, then you are very welcome to join.

How do I join CPDStepIn?

• If you have a Glow user ID, join CPDStepIn here. See this CPDAnswers post if you need help joining a Glow group.
• If you don’t have a Glow user ID, see this CPDAnswers post for how you can get one.

The National CPD Team are grateful to LTScotland for their support in this important venture.

Please help spread the word about CPDStepIn.

… join the discussion on this topic in CPDCentral …

David Johnstone (Quality Improvement Manager in Dundee City Council) was kind enough to give me a good chunk of his valuable time yesterday. Our main focus was on online CPD technology, and we covered a lot of ground in how Dundee City Council’s OnlineCPD system and tools such as CPDFind will help in the PRD process. It was great to see how firmly David is rooting the work in the Professional Standards and incorporating coaching techniques into PRD (or SD and R as it’s known in Dundee City). It’s also good to hear that Dundee colleagues are using Glow to host professional communities.

David also kindly shared a sneak preview of a draft ‘framework’ for Principal Teachers. I am sure many colleagues will be interested when it’s past the draft stage, David!

I look forward to continuing the conversation at the Stirling workshop on 5th and 6th of February with David and others (I will blog about this as soon as we have the final agenda in place).

Oh and the photo is the slap-up lunch that David bought me that I didn’t get time to eat, so engrossed were we!  Thanks David!

prd-draft-paper.pdf

Clicking the link above will let you download the 1st draft of the PRD paper. It will posted on CPDConfer over the summer period and beyond for comment. In the meantime, the CPD team would be delighted if you could leave comments on this blog post!

Thank you

Jim

The National CPD Team are undertaking a review of the Professional Review and Development (PRD) process. We recommend that the Standard for Full Registration be central to this review and the cornerstone of PRD and CPD for the Scottish teaching profession. For some post holders there are other Standards which will be the focus of their PRD but the SFR is the baseline professional Standard and should be placed in a fundamental central position.

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