The thought of further education can seem intimidating, especially, as many Governing Bodies are beginning to closely monitor individuals' CPD records. But with just a little careful consideration CPD can be easily managed by all.

Many organisations refer to CPD as a cycle. If you begin at the reflection aspect of the cycle, this is where you must be aware of what you would like to and/or need to learn.
The next phase is the planning part where, with the help of your manager or Union Learning Representative, you will need to find ways of satisfying your learning needs.
The middle portion is perhaps the hard part; the actual learning. Once you have undertaken your professional development the circle is completed with the evaluation stage.
This is where you must evaluate the effectiveness of your endeavours; learn from your mistakes, build on your successes and apply all to your professional practise. (Learning cycles are based on work by Kolb, 1993, Experiential Learning).

To help with this process CPDConference have included guidance to planning and recording CPD. We have made the forms available in two types of downloadable file.

The PDF files are best if you wish to print them out now, to be included in your own CPD folder. Alternatively you can keep the MS Word Doc. files on your own computer and update them using your word processing software.

CPD PLAN
PDF file		MS Word file
CPD RECORD
PDF file		MS Word file

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