Reflective Practice And Cpd Strategies. Flashcards
Define the term reflective practice.
Reflective practice is practitioners continually reflecting upon their practice, e.g. activities and encounters with students.
This improves their practice and ensure everything is being done for their learners .
Define the term continual professional development (CPD)
Fashion/practitioners actively improving their practice, this should be a continual and ongoing process.
CPD should be informed by self reflection or feedback from others
CPD should have focused target and the teacher to plan and engage with specific strategies .
Identify and explain reasons why CPD is important for educational practitioners
Maintain up-to-date knowledge
Improving provision and outcomes for children and young people
Keeping up with legislative changes
Making meaningful contributions to a team
ImProving opportunities for yourself
What CPD strategies could you engage with to become a better practitioner?
Online courses/external courses or workshops
Self directed learning, e.g. research
Shadowing visit to other settings
Appraisal peer observation and feedback .
Setting and reviewed professional goals
CPD strategies – Self-directed learning reading and research
What is it? Learn knowledge independently by self reflection e.g. reading or researching.
How the strategy can support CPD – expansion knowledge for future experiences .
CPD strategies – shadowing and visits from other settings
What is it? watching and observing other practitioners lesson in the same setting or a different one.
How can the following strategy support CPD? Observation can allow teachers to learn other strategies that they may find useful for themselves.
CPD strategy – external training workshops and conferences
What is it? Training outside of the setting such as un online courses workshops and conferences.
How will the following strategies support CPD? Expand his knowledge, uncertain topics mean practitioners can apply this.
CPD strategy– appraisal, peer observation and feedback
What is it? Feedback from others that has been observed maybe positive or negative.
How can the following strategie she support CPD? Practitioners can change certain things or keep using certain strategies.
CPD strategies – setting and reviewing professional goals.
What is it? Go sit by yourself. That should be reviewed by yourself.
How were the following strategy support CPD? To make progress on certain things that you feel needs to be improved.
