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Welcome to www.cpdsewales.org.uk
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www.cpdsewales.org.uk is the result of collaboration between the 5 LEAs within the South East Wales Consortium. This web site changes the face of CPD provision for school based staff and aims to bring a number of clear benefits to schools: The new on-line system plans to:
- Give more choice of CPD across the consortium
- Bring a broader range of expertise available to schools than any one LEA can provide
- Enable specialist advice which is not currently offered in some authorities to be offered to all schools
- Provide the opportunity of joint appointments and joint sourcing of outside consultants to address gaps in provision
- Facilitate school networking within and across LEAs
- Provide an up to date record of CPD of all staff within any one school.
- Offer an effective system for recording evaluations and feedback about impact upon school practice/standards
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Course finder |
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We have an extensive and varied selection of training and development opportunities which are available via our online course booking facility which can be accessed by clicking on search courses. The course finder offers you a variety of search criteria. You may browse all course provision without logging in to the system. To book a place you need to log on by entering your username and password in the login box positioned on the left hand side of the homepage. If you Request a Place on a course and are not logged in you will be taken to the login screen where you can enter your account details and continue.
If you have never attended one of our events previously then please click on the new user link and the system will create an account for you.
Work on the new website is still ongoing so over the next year you will see the range of CPD opportunities on the web site improving as time goes on.
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The Expertise Database |
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This database will help you to find expertise that is available to support school, educational setting, cluster, network, or consortium based training and consultancy. This is mainly staffed through the reorganisation of advisers consultancy deployment on a consortium basis, in order to make better use of resources and improve services. This work supports the Consortiums aim to provide a service that will be more flexible and tailored to the developmental needs of schools. Search for expertise here
The Consortium is also working with outside partners to broaden the range of CPD provision offered to schools. These outside partners include recognised experts in their field such as the Key Skills Support Programme Cymru, CILT Cymru, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Gwent Theatre and Management and Education departments within Further and Higher Education institutions. |
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Calendar |
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| Use the calendar to find event information by date across South East Wales. |
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Electronic Personal development Record |
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| This is a personal CPD record for every user. The EPDR automatically tracks course attendance and provides access to course materials and handouts. Line managers can generate reports for staff in their organisation at any time. Users can also create profiles of CPD interests which prompt automatic messages when new CPD events are added to the Course Finder. |
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Code of Practice |
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| All providers of professional development services listed on www.cpdsewales.org.uk are required to agree to meet the criteria in the following Code of Practice. The 5 LEAs within the SE Wales Consortium evaluate their own delivery accordingly through their quality assurance arrangements. The 5 LEAs within the SE Wales Consortium expect any external providers to adhere to the Code of Practice and will evaluate their delivery through quality assurance arrangements. |
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Criteria for providers |
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As a registered CPD SE Wales provider organizations undertake to:
- deliver high quality CPD;
- offer innovative and creative approaches to teacher development;
- employ experienced, well-qualified staff who have up-to-date knowledge of the of the topics offered and to have mechanisms in place to maintain that knowledge;
- demonstrate an innovative and well articulated approach to CPD within its own operations;
- exemplify a knowledge and understanding of the education sector in which it is offering CPD;
- direct learners to access to appropriate support where required/ relevant;
- have the capacity to meet demand for the professional development services offered;
- offer the style and pace of learning that most closely suits the learners needs within the agreed specification contained in the event information;
- respect cultural diversity;
- in the case of accredited provision enable learners to track their progress and record their achievement through the provision of specified learning outcomes;
- comply fully with any relevant legislation associated with the delivery of its learning opportunities;
- respect the confidentiality of any information they receive about the participant, the participants school, teaching and non-teaching staff and pupils;
- respond to accurately and promptly to any requests from the SE Wales Consortium for information;
- fully participate in evaluation procedures for its CPD provision and to make effective use of participant feedback to inform the quality of future provision;
- meet appropriate quality standards for learning provision through quality assurance arrangements and to provide adequate documentary proof of this on request;
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- (where the provider is external to the 5 LEAs) supply details of the people delivering the development activity setting out: their specific expertise and experience in the area to be addressed in each specific training and development activity.
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