Planning and Tracking Your CPD – “It’s all about me”

Session description

CPD can feel like another administrative task, with points to collect, evidence to keep and reflections to record alongside a busy workload. Yet professional learning often happens through everyday practice as well as formal training.

This session looks at ways to make CPD planning and recording more manageable and meaningful. We will examine NRCPD and RBSLI requirements, consider the range of activities that may contribute to CPD, and explore how learning from work, reading, mentoring, supervision and discussion can be recognised and recorded.

Through examples and practical activities, participants will consider how to identify priorities, build a realistic CPD plan, maintain records throughout the year and use reflection and learning cycles to connect individual activities to longer-term development.

Who is this session for?

Qualified and trainee sign language interpreters and translators who want a more organised and useful approach to CPD.

Learning outcomes

·         Gain a clearer understanding of CPD requirements and how points can be collected

·         Recognise more of the learning and development already taking place within your professional life

·         Find practical ways to keep CPD records organised without creating unnecessary extra work

·         Develop a CPD plan that reflects your own work, interests, and priorities

·         Use reflection in a way that is useful rather than simply completing it because it is required

·         Make links between different CPD activities and identify what you want to work on next

·         Leave with a more realistic approach to managing CPD throughout the year

Trainer(s)

Stephen Ellis-Menton

Structured CPD points: 3

Language of instruction: English (BSL interpretation available on request)

Cameras: On

Participation: Active

Recorded: No