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ePortfolios in Professional Practice
The use of PebblePad by professional associations
Alison PootShane SutherlandColin DalzielLee Davies
“A growing number of professional associations are utilising the ePortfolio process to provide evidence of the attainment of professional standards ..... or for current members to demonstrate active and ongoing professional development to facilitate their reaccreditation as a professional.”
(AeP, 2009).
PebblePad Personal Learning System
Institute for Learning
Institute of Payroll Professionals
Chartered Society of Physiotherapists
Society of Chirpodists & Podiatrists
Faculty of General Dental Practice
UK Professional Associations
“..... the professional body for teachers, tutors,
trainers and student teachers in the further
education (FE) and skills sector, including adult
and community learning, emergency and public
services, FE colleges, the armed services, sixth-
form colleges, the voluntary and community
sector and work-based learning.” (IfL, 2009)
Institute for Learning
Formed in 2002
Government legislation introduced:
- Teacher Registration = Professional Formation(a) Qualified Teacher Learning & Skills (QTLS)(b) Associate Teacher Learning & Skills (ATLS)
- Membership of IfL required- 30 hours of CPD annually
Now more than 200,000 members across UK
Institute for Learning
Key considerations:
Improving the ICT competence of members
Wanting members to manage their own PD and reflect on their own development
CPD at the IfL
Have you undertaken professional development activities this year?
Have you reflected on the learning you have gained from these activities?
Have the activities and the reflection made a difference to how you teach or train?
Can you show evidence of this difference and the impact it has made to learners, colleagues or the organisation in which you work?
CPD at the IfL
Evidence of qualifications Evidence of L2 literacy and numeracy Narratives (with evidence):
- teaching biography- subject currency- teaching and learning- self evaluation- development planning- reflective practice
....... suited to a Webfolio
Professional Formation
Professional Formation
Recording CPD
Submitting CPD log to IfLREfLECT
[105,000 users]
How does the IfL meet legislative requirements around CPD without compromising the privacy of the user’s personal space?
Amount of PD
Type of PD
Challenge .....
REfLECT remains totally independent & private- user controls what is sent to the IfL
‘Number crunching’ occurs within the IfL membership database and not in REfLECT- relies upon self-report
CPD is defined very broadly- members use professional judgement to determine what is appropriate and significant PD
Key points
2008 – 2009 PD year- 180,311 members at end May 2009- 51% (82,000) used REfLECT to record CPD- 20% declared using REfLECT
72% - fair to excellent tool for doing this
79% - fair to excellent layout and design
76% - fair to excellent accessibility
REfLECT Stats
“On the whole, those members who used
REfLECT had the most substantial evidence
in terms of discussing their reasons for
undertaking an activity, what they had
gained from it and the impact it had on their
practice and their learners.”
Caroline Harvey, IfL reviewer, (IfL, 2009)
“Yes – make as much use of REfLECT as you can. It will help you to formalise the process and therefore make it easy to declare your CPD. More important (for me anyway) it will help you to become critically reflective and rather than a learning circle it is a learning spiral as it is so easy to go back to past reflections and update them as you make more progress and development. It is also so easy to make links with different assets that are particularly related and thus you are not repeating what you have already done.”
Senior Teacher, Private Work-Based Learning Provider,
(IfL,2010)
IfL Website – REfLECT: http://www.ifl.ac.uk/cpd/reflect
IfL Case Studies: http://www.ifl.ac.uk/cpd/case-studies/cpd-case-studies
IfL (2009) Review of CPD 2008-09: http://www.ifl.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/13970/2008-09IfLReviewofCPD.pdf
IfL (2010) Supporting the Workforce Project final report – 31 March 2010: http://www.ifl.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/13970/2008-09IfLReviewofCPD.pdf
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