◥ University. {q} PhD. ⏫ THEMES. ⏫ Police. ⚫ UK. ⚫ England. ⬤ London. ☸️ MPS. Continuing professional development (CPD) | College of Policing. Plan and assess When considering your professional development needs it can be useful to use a template. Download Use the professional development plan template(opens an external website in the same tab) Learn Learning takes many forms in the workplace and they all offer opportunities to help you develop your professional practice. It might be: talking to an experienced colleague and reflecting on what happened in a workplace situation performing your regular duties or encountering new situations watching a recording of a webinar reading some research about a topic that maintains your knowledge on an area attending a course that enhances your skills or knowledge Whatever form the learning takes, it is important to reflect and think about how you can apply it to your professional practice.
Reflect Everyone already thinks about what they’ve done to varying extents. Reflective practice is doing this well, regularly. The more you do this, the more you are able to: Record, apply and share. Inset day. School day where teachers train and work, and students do not attend In education, an inset day (an abbreviation of in-service training day; alternatively INSET day)[1] is a school day on which teaching sessions are not conducted and students do not attend school, but teachers are required to attend for training or to complete administrative tasks.
Inset days allow teachers to catch up on work (such as marking exams or report cards), train on new technology, or learn new methods of teaching.[2][3] Inset days are common in Commonwealth countries, predominantly the United Kingdom and Canada, and also Ireland. An inset day may also be known as a PD day (professional development day; alternatively pro-D day), PA day (professional activity day), Ped Day (pedagogical day), TD day (teacher development day), teacher training day, teacher's workshop, workshop day, Baker day,[2][4][5] staff development day,[6] school development day,[7] or inservice day. ✊ Harvey (2009)