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What is CPD?

What is CPD?. Continuing Professional Development. It refers to the process of tracking and documenting the skills, knowledge and experience that you gain both formally and informally as you work, beyond any initial training. It's a ‘record’ of what you experience, learn and then apply.

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What is CPD?

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  1. What is CPD? Continuing Professional Development. It refers to the process of tracking and documenting the skills, knowledge and experience that you gain both formally and informally as you work, beyond any initial training. It's a ‘record’ of what you experience, learn and then apply. The CPD process helps you manage your own development on an ongoing basis. It's function is to help you record, review and reflect on what you learn.

  2. Training Vs. Development As a rule of thumb, training is formal and linear. It's to do with learning how to do something specific, relating to skill and competence. Training can be as simple as using a PC application and as complex as learning how to be a pilot. Development is often informal and has a wider application, giving you the tools to do a range of things and relating to capability and competency. It involves progression from basic know-how to more advanced, mature or complex understanding. Alternatively it can be about widening your range of transferable skills like leadership, managing projects or organising information.

  3. Key Features • A documented process • Be self-directed: driven by you, not your employer • Focus on learning from experience, reflective learning and review • Help you set development goals and objectives • Include both formal and informal learning

  4. What Will It Do For You? • Help review and document your learning and to develop and update your professional knowledge and skills. • Provides an overview of your professional development to date • Reminds you of your achievements and how far you've progressed • Directs your career and helps you keep your eye on your goals • Opens up further development needs • Provides examples and scenarios for a CV or interview

  5. To Tweet or Not To Tweet? Twitter has thousands of users sharing resources around the world, it’s free, easy to use and constantly updated. ‘’There are many teachers who are disregarding DfE models of practice promoted via The National College, the abolished TDA and the Institute of Education and so on. Out of the estimated 0.9 million teachers across the country, there is approximately just 5% of teachers (less than 50,000) using Twitter for professional networking. Within this organism, there is an underground revolution-taking place’’ Ross McGill – @TeacherToolkit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXgPILPqYL4

  6. Open Classroom • Make time to visit colleagues classrooms • Look at displays • Share resources • Ask questions

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