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Continuing Professional Development in the UK Adult and Community Learning Sector

Continuing Professional Development in the UK Adult and Community Learning Sector. Kath Reynolds Adult Learning Programme Manager Stoke-on-Trent City Council. Institute for Learning.

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Continuing Professional Development in the UK Adult and Community Learning Sector

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  1. Continuing Professional Development in the UKAdult and Community Learning Sector Kath Reynolds Adult Learning Programme Manager Stoke-on-Trent City Council

  2. Institute for Learning • Formed 2002, Independent professional body for teachers, trainers, tutors in FE and skills including Adult and Community Learning • All tutors record their CPD on Reflect Other Agencies • Niace, Lifelong Learning UK, Campaign for Learning, LEAFEA, Skills Funding Agency, LSIS, Training and Development Agency, DCSF, DIUS......

  3. What are the aims of CPD? The approach • Focus on learner impact • Importance of dual professionalism – subject and teaching skills • Ongoing reflection and continuity • Technology as integral • Improving the performance of organisations • Broad range of activities....

  4. Forms of CPD? • Courses, conferences, seminars • Gaining qualifications – subject or teaching practice • Peer coaching / mentoring /shadowing / team teaching / observation • Reading books, journals, internet,Teachers TV and other media • Contributing to academic journals, writing reports • Curriculum design and development • Sharing ideas and resources • Planning, running staff development opportunities • Examiner, verifier or assessor duties

  5. How much CPD?

  6. CPD in Stoke-on-Trent ACL • Qualified Teacher Status, Membership of IfL • Inhouse - Teaching Excellence Programme Induction training, Systems training, Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement (RARPA), Lesson Planning, Skills for Life, Family Learning Training, Classroom management, ILT – programme of activities Self Assessment review and Professional development review • Equality and Diversity Working with people with disabilities/ EAL/ learning difficulties • Safeguarding Child Protection, Manual Handling, Lone Working Personal Safety • Meetings Team and cross-curricula meetings, Curriculum development meetings, Information exchanges External Courses, Conferences and Seminars

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