I am delighted to tell you that the CPD Team and partners are continuing their full programme of CPDMeets (free webconferences on Glow).
The season kicks off with the subject of professional learning communities. Fearghal Kelly will talk about “Subject learning communities” which is East Lothian’s take on professional collaboration. You can register for Fearghal’s CPDMeet on Glow
If you haven’t yet booked up for this year’s annual conference, then don’t delay. The theme is how we can think differently to achieve success for Curriculum for Excellence, and the reflections will be aided by a wide range of speakers such as Keith Brown, Minister for Skills and Lifelong Learning, Jim Scott, headteacher of Perth High School, Detective Inspector Linda Borland of the Violence Reduction Unit, Irene Whitford a teacher from Kirkliston Primary school and many more.
Places at £80 each can be reserved by contacting Ruth on 0131 474 9360 or ruth@cosla.gov.uk
We are very grateful to all colleagues who contributed to our survey of what’s happening in terms of leadership development at all levels across the local authorities.
Attached you will find the final report which includes a brief commentary from the CPD team on issues raised.
Many of you will have already seen this report when it was discussed at a recent Network meeting. As always we would be happy to hear any comments you may have.
Bob Cook would like to make the PRD paper from earlier this year to be more publicly available for his work on PRD. The paper is here PRD FINAL 2010[1].
The National CPD Team is seeking tenders for some associate work on one of its online communities, CPDStepin. The work will be:
based around the imaginative facilitation and promotion of CPDStepin
approximately 20 days in duration
on a call-off basis between start of term and March 2011.
The work will include:
arranging a series of CPDMeets
identifying and posting other CPD opportunities
making links with other CPD communities such as CPDCentral and CPDLead
Tenderers are strongly encouraged to suggest other imaginative ways of building collegiality among this group of colleagues. Please email Ruth ruth@cosla.gov.uk with:
a brief proposal on how you would promote and facilitate CPDStepin
a brief outline of your own expertise in this area
an indication of your daily rate
The deadline for receipt of tenders is 24th August 2010 at midday.
I-share (or CPDShare) is a way of sharing your CPD practice in the Glow communities that are affiliated to CPDCentral.
There are four Is you can share with colleagues in your CPD community: Issue, Idea, Insight / research and Interesting practice.
To add your own, look for an Add button.
You can also I-share across more than one CPD community by adding different hashtags. Using the I-share form is pretty straightforward. Watch this tutorial video clip if you need more help. It’s a bit dated but will still give you an idea of why sharing is important and how to use the I-share form
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