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Language CentreSCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

Beyond papers: taking your professional development further

Carolin Schneider

Self-Access Area Manager

AULC Teaching & Learning Support mid-year SiG meeting in June 2014 #AULCTLS

What is Continuing Professional Development (CPD)?• Structured or self-directed

• Formal or informal

• Relevant: knowledge and skills

• Practical: experience

• Lifelong learning

• Individual

• Personal

Most professional bodies require CPD.


Why and how is up to you. Some ideas:• Find and use information

• Ask and answer questions

• Find out about things outside your immediate environment

• Share ideas and get feedback

• Collaboration

• Build networks for learning or professional support


Barriers to CPD – don’t let them stop you


What’s stopping you What to do about it

Lack of money • Apply for funding, seek out free events and use libraries, shadowing, free webinars

Lack of time • Combine it with other things: commute, city trips, meetings

• Follow your passions – you’re bound to learn something useful

• Entitled to ‘time to train’?

Not sure where to start • Talk to colleagues, managers, use organisation’s appraisal scheme

• Search engines, internet• Professional bodies


https://www.acpe-accredit.org/pdf/images/CPDCycle2011Color.jpg & http://www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/ldu/sddu_multimedia/kolb/static_version.php

CPD cycle

Where?


Who?

Think about who can help you

and what you can learn from them.


How can you get in touch with them?

What will you do?

Some ideas:• Look outside your immediate

environment

• Where do you want it to take you?

• Unconferences

• Mentoring/coaching

• Professional bodies

• Digital forums• LinkedIn: University Language Centres:

Resources Management Group


What next?• Decide what your goals are

• Draw up an action plan

• How will you record your learning?• Private list, blog, annual review

scheme, professional organisations scheme

• Try something new - step outside your comfort zone


Selection of references (accessed 20 May 2014)

• Teacher Development or Training? http://web.icu.ac.jp/lrb/vol_22/Kota%20LRB%20V22.pdf

• Morguefile: http://www.morguefile.com

• ‘Time to train’: https://www.gov.uk/training-study-work-your-rights

Some upcoming events

• LocalGovCamp – 21 June 2014 - @localgovcamp

• Library Camp 2014 - @librarycamp

• Jisc Digital Festival – 9+10 March 2015 – @Jisc


Powerpoint Karaoke aka Battledecks• Two volunteers

• A presentation of 60 seconds each – 4 slides

• Each slide will move on automatically after 15 seconds

• They have never seen the slides before


First volunteer ready?



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Giver

Receiver

Pay it forward

Second volunteer ready?


Note: click when ready!


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Thank you!

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