Appendix 1 – Halima Khan – personal development plan
As a teacher one cannot stress the importance for keeping up to date with subject specific course content and finding innovative ways of teaching. However, many teachers will tell you that their CPD plans tend to be left on a shelf and never see the light of day as they are head deep in planning, marking and assessing learners work. The priority is the learner and ensuring you do everything you can to support them in completing their qualification. This issue can lead to becoming repetitive in your learning and not been current, you are also doing your learners a dis-service by not updating yourself which is turn means learners will always receive old information from you and learning is not fresh and interesting. It is important to make the time in improving yourself and gaining CPD. “you need to ensure that professional development becomes a continuous process” (Reece &Walker, 2009 pg.433).
As part of my CPD I have created a personal development plan where I have outlined my current strengths, areas for improvement, how I will achieve this and why it is important for my development. Please see Appendix 1 – Halima Khan, personal development plan.
Due to the workloads of everyday life, the development plan can be put on hold. To make sure I keep on track with this I will set reminders in my diary which will prompt me of what I need to do. I have also started a buddy shame with a fellow work colleague in the same area as my teaching practice. The premise of the scheme is we will both support each other on our development plan and gaining CPD, this is done by booking each other’s courses or arranging times and dates we will meet to discuss the development plan progress.
References
Reece, I and Walker, S. (2007) Teaching, training and learning: A practical guide. Sunderland. Business Education
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