CPD in action

Curious to find out about how other members incorporate continuing professional development (CPD) into their working lives? These examples of CPD in action show examples of how your professional development doesn't have to be extra work but a stimulating process that's already an intrinsic part of your everyday life.

Helping create a university for teachers

Hilary Moore is the director of student and staff learning at BSix Brooke House Sixth Form College in Hackney, which has become an exemplar for extensive and innovative continuing professional development (CPD), to the extent that other sixth‑form and general further education colleges visit BSix to see what it is doing.

Lights, cameras, action – the use of video in education

David Vickers, lecturer in arboriculture and forestry at Sparsholt College shares his CPD in videography and provides resources for fellow members to use video in education..

The Great CPD Escape

IfL Member John Parkinson's experience of being an education manager for Lincoln College at HMP Ranby. He illustrates the essential use of information and communication technologies in prisons and how this has benefited his own development.

CPD affects our job satisfaction and students' learning

Andrea Slade teaches at Epping Forest College and has a dual role at Newham College: "I teach students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. We prepare them for both life and work. It was with this in mind that a colleague told me about a sharing day, run by a local project called Inclusive Communication Essex (ICE)."

On the Murder Trail

Staff at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College have found new and interesting ways to engage students of all abilities outside of the conventional classroom setting, and simultaneously leading to suprising new avenues of CPD.

Action research as CPD

Sam Alvarez shares her experience in undertaking a a small-scale action research project into effective assessment for effective learning and explains how the outcomes have helped learners at the college, as well as contributing to her own CPD.

Learners benefit from employability skills tutor's CPD

Tui Palmer, employability skills tutor at Working Links, a public, private and voluntary organisation that works in some of the most deprived areas of Great Britain to address the challenges faced by long-term unemployed people, helping change their lives by supporting them into sustainable employment. Here she writes about her continuing professional development (CPD) and its impact on her learners and colleagues.