The Role of Continuing Professional Development Siobhan Neary-Booth Co-Director

1. The Role of Continuing Professional Development Siobhan Neary-Booth Co-Director International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby

2. Aim To look at the challenges faced by the IAG workforce in training and continuous professional development (CPD).

3. Defining CPD • What does CPD mean to You? • What CPD activities do You engage in? • Who benefits from CPD :- You, your organisation, the student/trainee/learner?

4. A definition Continuing Professional Development is the conscious updating of professional knowledge and the improvement of personal competence throughout your working life....a commitment to being professional, keeping up to date and continuously seeking to improve.  It is the key to optimising your career opportunities, both today and for the future. Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, 2000

5. What is CPD and why is it important? • Our competence develops as we practice • Recognition of gaps in our knowledge and experience etc • Shared Knowledge and experience • Developing a community of practice • Keeping up with developments in the field • Inspire confidence in the client/student (Mulvey 2004)

6. Current and potential drivers... • Education and Skills Act (2008) – Section 81 (Impartial IAG) • DCSF – IAG Strategy Document • Quality Standards for Young People’s Information, Advice and Guidance • New National Qualification for Careers Co-ordinators • Youth Matters • 14-19 Implementation Plan • Children’s Plan (2007) • Further Education: Raising skills, Improving Life Chances (2006)

7. Quality standards for young people’s Information, Advice and guidance Standard 10 “Staff providing information, advice and guidance service are appropriately qualified, work to relevant professional standards and received continuing professional development”

8. Evidence based practice Qualifications Reading - Journals Training plans Performance reviews Reflective practice Conferences Research Mentoring/Coaching Peer observations/review Professional Associations- ICG, ACEG Websites www.cegnet.co.uk www.iagworkforce.co.uk www.guidance-research.org www.diploma-support.org/communities/iag Support from Connexions Derbyshire CPD Activities?

9. CPD Challenges • Measurement of the level of learning • Measuring the impact on practice • Development of learning organisations • Espousal of the ideology of lifelong learning • Systematic & continuous attempt to up-skill the workforce • Participation rates vary • ‘recurrent training’ for CPD - optional in most countries, including the UK ‘This aspect of guidance is very much under-researched.’ McCarthy (2001, p.7)

10. Professional Knowledge 4 levels of professional knowledge • Cognitive Knowledge - (Know what we do) • Applying knowledge - (Know how to do it) • Integrated Knowledge - (Apply in collaboration) • Dynamic Knowledge - (Adapting the knowledge to major change) (Watkins 1996)

11. ‘…those who do qualify and engage in professional practice, the realisation dawns that qualifying is not the point of arrival, but the point of departure'…the knowledge base on which our practice is founded is not static, but dynamic. It is not fixed, it is relentlessly evolving'. (Mulvey, 2004)

12. Certificate and Diploma in CEIAG • To support improved CEIAG support for young people • University Certificate ( 60 credits) – Level 4 • University Diploma (60 credits) – Level 6 • Opportunities for interim qualification and specialism • Will support you and your organisation to evaluate, develop and implement systems and programmes to achieve the national Quality Standards for Young People’s IAG.

13. Certificate and Diploma in CEIAG

14. Contact details International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS) University of Derby, Kedleston Road Derby DE22 1GB Tel: 01332 591267 Fax: 01332 597726erby.ac.uk Email: icegsenquiry@derby.ac.uk