The Excellence Gateway has many resources to support CPD, including sections on:
CPD Requirements
Requirements for educators to maintain their professional status.
Using the Excellence Gateway to support CPD
How educators, departments and organisations can make use of Excellence Gateway tools and resources to support and develop their CPD programmes.
Programmes to support CPD
How participation in one or more programmes [...]
Excellence Gateway develops new theme to support CPD
October 29th, 2009 · No Comments
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ITQ for Mobile Learning Information Day
September 11th, 2009 · No Comments
ITQ for Mobile Learning – Information Day
23rd September 2009
Birmingham
Recently e-skills launched a revised version of the user ICT qualification, ITQ and it has a number of units with a focus on mobile technology. LSN have been working with City and Guilds on the new version of ITQ to produce a related qualification, ‘ITQ for Mobile [...]
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E-Guides eCPD training dates
September 8th, 2009 · No Comments
NIACE and the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) are pleased to announce a new series of events as part of the E-Guides training programme.
After another successful year of the E-Guides training programme, which has seen the total number of trained E-Guides reach over 2,500, the training programme forms part of the eCPD programme funded [...]
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Nominations now open for free PDAs eCPD training – apply now!
August 25th, 2009 · No Comments
Nominations are now open for Year 2 of the PDAs eCPD training programme. The next training events start in October.
Important details concerning the training – including how to apply - can be found on the eCPD Online Learning Space (OLS) at http://ecpd.bdplearning.com/ecpd/how_to_get_involved_pda.php.
Submitting an application form does not guarantee a place on the training. Successful applicants [...]
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Teachers get £5.6 million technology training programme
July 21st, 2009 · No Comments
New initiative will enhance professional skills of ICT and non-ICT teachers and help to transform ICT-related learning
An England-wide programme to help teachers bring technology more effectively into the classroom has been launched by The Open University and e-skills UK.
Funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), the £5.6million programme will help education professionals, [...]
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New staff development case study live on Excellence Gateway
July 16th, 2009 · No Comments
The latest case study from our region has gone live on the Excellence Gateway!
Leeds City College: The e-staff development approach
In Leeds City College Thomas Danby Campus, staff development has become e-staff development – instead of being an added option, e-learning is central to the entire approach to continuing professional development (CPD). As well as offering [...]
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Lifelong Learning Teaching Qualification resources
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments
The Centre of Excellence in Teacher Training has a good link for information on resources linked to criteria for the Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (DTLLS), including Unit 1 Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS).
As part of initial teacher training reforms, the government created a network of Centres of [...]
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Regional Subject Coaching Network Events in June
May 20th, 2009 · No Comments
The Learning and Skills Improvement Network (LSIS) will host a series of full day Subject Coaching network events throughout Yorkshire & Humber from 3rd – 26th June 2009.
Business Education
Construction
Creative and Media
E2E/FLT/AL
Engineering
Information Technology
Land Based Studies
Managers Network
Maths
Modern Foreign Languages
Science
Society Health and Development
Everyone from across the learning and skills sector is welcome. Whether you are from a work-based [...]
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New eCPD Online learning space – register now!
April 21st, 2009 · No Comments
The new eCPD Programme’s Online learning space (OLS) is a growing community of practice. It is being developed on behalf of LSIS with representatives from the whole FE system to enable practitioners to make effective use of technology to support and enhance learning.
Register now at http://ecpd.bdplearning.com to access the following:
A new interactive eCPD framework and [...]
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Online Professional Development Courses
April 21st, 2009 · No Comments
Sheffield College’s Online College is now recruiting for two online professional development courses, both starting in June – *LeTTOL* and *Getting to Grips with Moodle*
LeTTOL (Learning to Teach Online) will start on 25 June 2009, and finish in late October 2009. Two/three week holidays in August can be accommodated.
The core facts about the course are [...]
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