CPD Team

I know that September seems a long way off, but already planning for SLF 2009 is well underway. The themes for next year’s festival are Curriculum for Excellence: Making the Change and Glow. The National CPD Team, not surprisingly, are looking to showcase innovative CPD as a means of overtaking these themes. All members of the CPD Team will be taking an active part but there is always room for more!
 If you want to feature on next year’s programme then a 200 word abstract must be presented to the Conference Secretariat by December 19th 2009. Follow this link for more details.

Stop press!

The deadline for submissions for SLF 2009 has been extended until Friday 30 January 2009 with approved abstracts being invited to present at the conference by Monday 2 March 2009. If you have any questions about the submission process please contact Martin Jack on martinjack@thinkdifferentevents.co.uk or 0141 221 7423.

I am having a whale of a time doing the rounds at CPD Festivals, Scottish Learning Festival seminar, Orkney Integrated Children’s Services Festival, Shetland Islands In-Service event and South Ayrshire Council. Here are the links I promised all the participants.

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 and bought the virtual T-Shirt

For general CPD information – try CPDScotland

For specific CPD opportunities, try CPDFind

To find out more about Glow, visit www.glowscotland.org.uk

To get regular CPD updates subscribe to the CPD team email bulletin

John Johnston and his CPD Collective can be seen on OpenSource CPD

Read and comment on Don’s Ledingham’s Learning Log

See the online CPD on employer engagement!

Even though we never got to see Andrew Brown on Glowmeet, please drop him a comment on his blog

Find out more about CPDReflect here   

If you have a Glow password

• why not join the CPDCentral professional community?
• Or try CPDReflect for yourself. You’ll be one of the first, so please feel to drop me a comment above

Finally here’s the t-shirt I promised all who attended!