Working in partnership with Ofsted

afPE would like you to join us for a unique one-day seminar, in partnership with Ofsted, to raise standards in physical education.

The seminar will look at:
- How to recognise high quality teaching and learning observed in lessons;
- Recording the information for feedback and use it to bring about improvement;
- Setting the focus for lesson observations;
- Recognising and agreeing high quality teaching and learning in lessons;
- How to complete and use records of evidence;
- Techniques for feedback.

Seminars will take place in Leeds on Tuesday 10th June and in Oxford on Thursday 12th June.

Click HERE for further details or email helen.chadwick@afpe.org.uk.

Professional Development Opportunities 2008

Do you need support with your partnership CPD – please click HERE

High Quality Physical Education – for another opportunity to attend one of the very popular Ofsted seminars please click HERE

For further details on any of these articles or discuss any of your professional development queries please email helen.chadwick@afpe.org.uk

As you may be aware we have established a partnership with Edge Hill University to enable serving teachers to gain postgraduate accreditation for their attendance on various training courses run by afPE through the NCfCPD. 

This provides further recognition of the value of afPE CPD, both to the individual and to the school, and provides opportunities for participants to demonstrate the positive impact that the CPD has on their professional practice. This is critical to PESS professionals as part of their performance management and to proceed up the career pathway and achieve specific criterion within the Teachers’ Professional Standards Framework.

For each course provided by afPE and accredited by Edge Hill University, Edge Hill tutors will provide support and guidance in completing the assignments that lead to accreditation and this can be arranged online or face-to-face.  Each delegate will be provided with a module booklet which outlines the nature of the assignment and how it can be completed making best use of the work they are be doing as part of their professional practice. 

Assessment will be carried out by Edge Hill tutors, who will give constructive feedback on every piece of work submitted as part of the programme.  Delegates access a masters course for as little as £500.00 which is extremely competitive.

The registration process is fairly simple (we hope!).  Within each NCfCPD delegate bag there will be a flyer outlining the partnership between afPE and Edge Hill and how the accreditation process will work along with a registration form.  This form is purely for delegates to register an interest with Edge Hill and does not commit them to anything.  Delegates can either complete the form and hand it to the tutor during their course or they can send it back to me directly.  Helen Chadwick will collate all the registration forms and send them to our contact at Edge Hill.  Edge Hill will then write to each delegate and provide them with a guidance booklet.  If the delegate then chooses to start the process they liaise directly with Edge Hill.

Click HERE for further details on the registration process and click HERE to see our FAQs. 

For further details on any aspect of the afPE/Edge Hill partnership please email cpdopportunities@afpe.org.uk 

The National College for Continuing Professional Development (NCfCPD) continues to play a major role in providing leadership for physical education and those who deliver it, raising standards and protecting professional standards. 

It enables the association to develop systematic accreditation systems, in particular through our new partnership with Edge Hill University, to ensure appropriate preparation, experience and qualification; to promote safe and ethical delivery; and to share exemplary practice.

Throughout the year a variety of CPD opportunities will be available nationally, regionally and locally.  As part of all afPE CPD delegates will receive; high quality support materials, professional administration and booking service, certificate of attendance (accreditation where appropriate) for use with your CPD portfolio and signposts to other high quality CPD opportunities.

 NCfCPD Flyer

CPD Courses:

Adults Supporting Learning:
The course is designed to support Adults Supporting Learning who are not qualified teachers. Participants will have opportunities to share and discuss issues as well as analysing and challenging their own practice in order to develop action plans.
Click HERE for more information.

Assessment for Learning:
This course will link all elements of the national picture, personalised learning, the characteristics of assessment for learning, opportunity for shared practice, ideas/strategies for assessment for learning, implications for teaching and learning, implications for monitoring, recording and reporting and the potential impact on learning. 
Click HERE for more information.

Organising Safe and Efficient PESS Off-site Activities:
This course will provide delegates with an overview of the considerations and applications if the risk assessment process within the context of sports events, sports tours and other off-site activities. 
Click HERE for more information.

Risk Management:
This course considers the risk management process through practical tasks including the use of videos, photos, case summaries and the completion of a risk assessment. 
Click HERE for more information.

School Self-evaluation:
This course will provide a detailed step-by-step approach to working through the essential stages of self-evaluation and building on practice outlined in ‘A Guide to Self-review in Physical Education’.  Delegates will be equipped to train delegates locally in school self-evaluation. 
Click HERE for more information.

Secondary Specialists working with Primary Teachers:
This course is designed to give delegates an overview of the primary physical education curriculum and an awareness pf progression through the key stages from KS1 to KS3. 
Click HERE for more information.

For further details on any aspect of the afPE NCfCPD and its courses, to discuss working in partnership with afPE or to discuss your local CPD needs please contact helen.chadwick@afpe.org.uk or telephone 01509 609688 or 07766 225239.

What else does the NCfCPD offer you?

How afPE can support your local CPD:

Through the NCfCPD afPE will support and work in partnership with you locally to deliver CPD which meets your individual needs!  Offering high quality CPD with effective lead deliverers such as Carole Raymond (former HMI), Eileen Marchant (Author and National Trainer), Peter Whitlam (Safe Practice Lead Author) and partnerships with British Gymnastics and other authors,  you can organise CPD specific to the needs of your partnership for as little as £40.00 per delegate.

Some examples of local CPD that we have delivered recently are Adults Supporting Learning, Raising Standards in Physical Education, Risk Management and Observing High Quality PE courses.  All our CPD can be designed around you and tailored for school practitioners, ASLs, ITT trainers, advisory staff, etc.

Please view our Partnership Working flyer for further details or email cpdopportunities@afpe.org.uk