National College Course Flyer
Click HERE to download a flyer which details all of the courses and opportunities available within the National College for Continuing Professional Development.
TDA – National CPD Database
The pilot national continuing professional development (CPD) database provides members of the children's workforce in England with an authoritative source of information on CPD opportunities from participating providers. The database allows you to search or browse the database to find opportunities that meet your requirements.
By following the link you can:
Identify opportunities
- Explore a wide range of professional development opportunities by searching or browsing the database
Make informed choices
- Access and compare detailed information on the opportunities offered by a variety of providers
Choose with confidence
- The provision on the database conforms to a minimum standard of quality
Please visit - https://cpdsearch.tda.gov.uk/Default.aspx for more information or email helen.chadwick@afpe.org.uk for further details and all afPE CPD opportunities.
National College Course Listing 2009
A full list of National College for Continuing Professional Development courses are available to download.
Click HERE to view the courses available (including details of the dates/venues).
For more details or to book a place on any of these courses please email helen.chadwick@afpe.org.uk
The Crucial Role of Leadership – The reality of high quality Physical Education
Good leaders provide a stimulating and professional working environment in which teachers and others are highly motivated and enthused by their work, and where they strive continuously to improve their performance and the impact they have on learning. It is good or outstanding leadership which leads to high quality physical education. This course will explore practical elements of effective leadership and give delegates a clear framework within which to work. On completion of the course delegates should:
- Have a raised awareness of how leaders can promote well-being of learners through high quality care
- Be confident in looking at how leaders can effectively monitor progress of learners
- Have a raised awareness about how leaders can promote equality
- Understand the role of the leader in recruitment and staffing
- Understand the importance of leadership in achieving value for money
- Demonstrate how leaders should plan for improvement
- Have a raised awareness of how leaders should make effective links to enhance learning
Course date, venue and fees:
- Tuesday 30th June – Park Inn Russell Square, London
Prices:
afPE members = £125. Non-members = £145.
If you would like further details on this course or would like to register to attend then please contact helen.chadwick@afpe.org.uk
Raising Standards
afPE is pleased to announce a series of one-day sessions to support you in Raising Standards through High Quality Teaching and Learning in Physical Education. We know that good teaching and learning are critical to the process of achieving high quality physical education. This session will focus on how to recognise high quality teaching and learning through monitoring, planning and observation in lessons, recording the information for feedback and using it to bring about improvement.
Session outcomes include:
- Indentifying essential elements of effective planning
- 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
Dates and venues:
- 30th June - Hinckley Island Hotel, Hinckley
- 23rd September – Great Victoria Hotel, Bradford
- 8th October – Barcelo Hotel, Oxford
- 3rd November – Carden Park, Cheshire
- 17th November – Wyboston Lakes, Cambridge
- 3rd December – The Strand Palace Hotel, London
Click HERE to download a registration form.
If you would like further details or would like to register to attend one of these workshops then please email helen.chadwick@afpe.org.uk no later than five weeks before the session date.
Strictly Physical Education – Learning to Move, Moving to Learn Primary conference
The conference will focus on the important contribution that physical education makes to children's enjoyment and sense of self-worth. It will also raise awareness about the crucial role it plays in helping them to develop physically, emotionally and socially leading to healthy and fulfilling lifestyles.
The keynote address will out line the progress made to date with the primary curriculum review. Although the primary review of the curriculum will not be fully completed this conference will give delegates an insight into how it might look and how we should start to change our current practice. There will be time allocated during the day to ask questions and to contribute to discussion about the new curriculum.
There will also be opportunities for delegates to attend workshops which explore physical and creative development and show how these support children in their personal development and well-being.
The conference will take place on Tuesday, 7th July 2009 at Aston Hall Hotel, Sheffield.
For more details please download our conference flyer or email helen.chadwick@afpe.org.uk
'Build Bridges – Increasing Effectiveness' – afPE East Launch & Inaugural Conference, 13th October 2009
This conference will launch afPE East region, bringing together physical education and school sport professionals from across the eastern region and beyond to network and build bridges. It will also look at improving the effectiveness of the transition in PE between the key stages. It will champion the enhancement of continuity and curriculum development during these phases.
Delegates will have the opportunity to examine issues surrounding high quality outcomes through the assessment and tracking of pupil progress.
The conference will take place on Tuesday, 13th October 2009 at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre near Cambridge.
Conference outcomes:
- Help delegates put the pupil at the heart of the process and provide strategies for effective transition arrangements between schools
- Provide practical tips for planning compelling learning across the key stages
- Help delegates understand how assessment for learning is crucial in enhancing pupil progress
- Help delegates understand the implications of recent developments in PE policy and regulation for the profession
- Provide opportunities for networking in order to set the priorities for the newly appointed afPE East Executive Committee
Download the conference registration form HERE or email helen.chadwick@afpe.org.uk for more details.
afPE partner up with the Institute of Sport & Recreation Management
afPE is delighted to be working in partnership with the Institute of Sport & Recreation Management (ISRM) to support the delivery of high quality professional learning. ISRM are pleased to offer afPE members access to their CPD at a reduced rate.
For further details on CPD opportunities offered by ISRM please click HERE.
Professional Development Opportunities 2009
Do you need support with your partnership CPD – 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
afPE/Edge Hill University working in partnership to offer you accreditation
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
NCfCPD Opportunities:
