Who, what and how?
Continuing Professional Development configurations
CPD can involve working with others, including colleagues and students.
CPD can mean development of any combinations of skills, knowledge and
understanding.
Some of the possible combinations are suggested in the grid below.
These include formal CPD (attending courses, conducting pedagogic research)
or embedded, informal 'everyday' CPD, using 'DIY' methods where we systematically explore our own
practice.
Experiential learning, eg through contributing to curriculum development
and critical reflection on this experience, enhances professional
expertise.
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Skills |
Knowledge |
Understanding of learning and teaching process |
By yourself |
Try out a new technique, adapt the way you teach, maybe through action research
Review or develop modules or programmes |
Read a book, web material or article related to pedagogy, possibly as part of a wider approach (eg action research)
Research new approaches, techniques and / or competitor activity for curriculum development |
Critical reflection through, eg, journal keeping, critical incident analysis |
With colleagues |
Team teach
Peer observation feedback or ideas gained during discussion
Work with a group to review or develop modules or programmes
Act as a mentor |
Attend a course, exchange ideas with colleagues, report to others and hear their reports on what they do |
Discussion after peer observation
Co-operative development or action learning project
Online discussion lists
Talk with a mentor |
With students |
Students suggest new techniques, you try out new techniques and refine these with the help of student feedback |
Articulate / explain / justify your teaching approach to your students
Provide a written rationale for your (department’s) approach in a student handbook. |
Exploratory practice (everyone learns)
Student feedback (you learn, but do they?) |
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