Alison Poot

1. The use of PebblePad by professional
associations
Alison Poot
Shane Sutherland
Colin Dalziel
Lee Davies

2. “A growing number of professional
associations are utilising the ePortfolio
process to provide evidence of the attainment
of professional standards ..... or for current
members to demonstrate active and ongoing
professional development to facilitate their
reaccreditation as a professional.”
(AeP, 2009).

4.  Institute for Learning
 Institute of Payroll Professionals
 Chartered Society of Physiotherapists
 Society of Chirpodists & Podiatrists
 Faculty of General Dental Practice

5. “..... the professional body for teachers, tutors,
trainers and student teachers in the further
education (FE) and skills sector, including adult
and community learning, emergency and public
services, FE colleges, the armed services, sixth-
form colleges, the voluntary and community sector
and work-based learning.” (IfL, 2009)

6.  Formed in 2002
 Government legislation introduced:
- Teacher Registration = Professional Formation
(a) Qualified Teacher Learning & Skills (QTLS)
(b) Associate Teacher Learning & Skills (ATLS)
- Membership of IfL required
- 30 hours of CPD annually
 Now more than 200,000 members across UK

7. Key considerations:
 Improving the ICT competence of members
 Wanting members to manage their own PD
and reflect on their own development

8.  Have you undertaken professional
development activities this year?
 Have you reflected on the learning you have
gained from these activities?
 Have the activities and the reflection made a
difference to how you teach or train?
 Can you show evidence of this difference and
the impact it has made to learners, colleagues
or the organisation in which you work?

10.  Evidence of qualifications
 Evidence of L2 literacy and numeracy
 Narratives (with evidence):
- teaching biography
- subject currency
- teaching and learning
- self evaluation
- development planning
- reflective practice
....... suited to a Webfolio

11.  Professional Formation
 Recording CPD
 Submitting CPD log to IfL[105,000 users]

12. How does the IfL meet legislative requirements
around CPD without compromising the privacy
of the user’s personal space?
 Amount of PD
 Type of PD

13.  REfLECT remains totally independent & private
- user controls what is sent to the IfL
 ‘Number crunching’ occurs within the IfL
membership database and not in REfLECT
- relies upon self-report
 CPD is defined very broadly
- members use professional judgement to
determine what is appropriate and significant
PD

14.  2008 – 2009 PD year
- 180,311 members at end May 2009
- 51% (82,000) used REfLECT to record CPD
- 20% declared using REfLECT
 72% - fair to excellent tool for doing this
 79% - fair to excellent layout and design
 76% - fair to excellent accessibility

15. “On the whole, those members who used
REfLECT had the most substantial evidence in
terms of discussing their reasons for
undertaking an activity, what they had gained
from it and the impact it had on their practice
and their learners.”
Caroline Harvey, IfL reviewer, (IfL, 2009)

16. “Yes – make as much use of REfLECT as you can. It
will help you to formalise the process and therefore
make it easy to declare your CPD. More important
(for me anyway) it will help you to become critically
reflective and rather than a learning circle it is a
learning spiral as it is so easy to go back to past
reflections and update them as you make more
progress and development. It is also so easy to make
links with different assets that are particularly related
and thus you are not repeating what you have
already done.”
Senior Teacher, Private Work-Based Learning Provider, (IfL,2010)

17.  IfL Website – REfLECT:
http://www.ifl.ac.uk/cpd/reflect
 IfL Case Studies: http://www.ifl.ac.uk/cpd/case-
studies/cpd-case-studies
 IfL (2009) Review of CPD 2008-09:
http://www.ifl.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/
13970/2008-09IfLReviewofCPD.pdf
 IfL (2010) Supporting the Workforce Project final
report – 31 March 2010:
http://www.ifl.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/
13970/2008-09IfLReviewofCPD.pdf