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January 19th, 2009Comments: none
Sheila Smith of the National CPD Team will lead a conversation for new (and newish) members of the CPD Network.
Sheila Smith of the National CPD Team will lead a conversation for new (and newish) members of the CPD Network.
We want to hear from you on this one. Members of the Glow team will give you a whistlestop tour of how Scottish educators are already using Glow for their professional development. If you, or some of your colleagues do, then let us know as soon as possible and it will feature. Of course, you might be keeping it for the ‘Open Mic’ session! 
We are well aware how busy life is as a CPD Network member. Here’s a chance to improve your hands-on skills in Glow with Katie Barrowman, Andrew Brown and other members of the Glow Team at LTScotland. You might even use the time to get some of those challenges done!
At last, a chance to tell the world about what you are doing in your local authority, your university, your national organisation! It can be a presentation, a visit to a website, a chat, a song and dance routine, it doesn’t matter as long as:
If we have too many on the day, we will dig out the old CPD random generator!
Margaret, Margaret, Sheila, Jim and Con will all contribute to a session that will update the Network on the work of the Team since our last meeting, but it won’t be the usual ‘stand-up’ routine! (Hint: the clue is in the online CPD tag-line!)
We will round the (working) day off with some more collegiate time with members of your group. Take the time to reflect on what you have seen, study the contributions to the ‘Building Windmills’ professional community and let us know if you want to see changes to the Day 2 agenda. Discussion topics will also come from the floor on the day. Just add them to the discussion thread for Day 1 Collegiate discussion.
CPDReflect, the online toolkit to help educators with the PRD process is here. Con Morris of the National CPD Team will take colleagues through a demo of the toolkit and how it can transform the PRD process and empower individual, and groups of, educators. This will be followed by a QA session and an opportunity to engage in a practical session on CPDReflect.
Eddie Broadley, area adviser with LTScotland, will lead us through thinking and discussion on CfE, specifically where the ‘unit of change’ is likely to be and the implications that has for the PRD process in each of our areas.
This collaborative session allows for marshalling of thoughts, seeking clarification from colleagues and, crucially, planning what actions you can take. A template is available for the action plan on the ‘Building Windmills’ professional community on Glow.
The penultimate session gives participants the chance to take to the stage again and share with colleagues. This might be:
As before, the contributions will be time-limited to afford as many as possible an opportunity to share!