PLD Report 2021 2022 CA

Carrie Archer PLD Coordinator

Professional Learning and Development Report 2021/2022

Content

Content/Index

TELMS

Introduction- What is PLD?

PLD Working Group

What have we done?

Financial Assistance

CDU Calendar and Moodle

UDL Badge with AHEAD

Thank you

Non-Accreddited

Introduction

What is Professional Learning and Developement in CDETB

CDETB is a place where we learn, grow, and develop both individually and collectively. Staff are encouraged and supported to engage with continuous, contextual learning and development through active engagement with both accredited and non-accredited activities and processes. Through experimentation, implementation, evaluation and reflection, professional learning and development will result in enhancement of practices and personal and professional growth. Collective transformational growth will result in our agility to respond to the needs of CDETB and its wider community.

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Over the course of this year, we have had 4 main areas of focus for PLD:

1. CDU calendar and Moodle site
2. Support of non accreddited PLD initiatives
3. Financial assistance for accreddited courses
4. PLD Working Group to develop a strategy for PLD

Additionally, we continued to develop, resource, support and expand CDETB led initiatives such as TELMS, Adult Literacy Awareness Training, Emerging Leaders Training and Middle Leaders Training (newly developed for 2022). We continue to support staff by providing financial assistance in areas that address our strategic priorities. Finally, in response to an identified need as part of our self evaluation, a working group specific to PL&D was established with its main remit being to develop an organisational strategy.

Based on some of the learning emerging from the evaluations as part of the annual review of CDETB provision, both through staff and learner feedback, there 4 main areas of focus were identified for the 2021/2022 academic year. We continued to provide a Monthly calendar of synchronous sessions for staff and this year improved communication of same by contacting all staff directly, as opposed to through their Principals/heads of centre. We further developed asynchronous resources through the CDU Moodle site.

CDU calendar and Moodle site

1. A monthly calendar of events was issued highlighting both our own lunchtime/evening sessions and external events of relevance. Weekly reminders were sent to all staff.
2. All recordings of sessions, including additional follow up resources and supports are hosted on the CDU Moodle site and links to the relevant sections were issued in a weekly round up to all staff (incl second providers)
3. All PLN events facilitated by the CDETB Psychological Service were communicated through this monthly calendar and weekly reminders
4. A new tracking system was designed to record attendance at all CDETB led sessions
5. Topics were prioritised based on feedback from staff and learner surveys and evaluations from 2020/2021 sessions.
6. Second providers had access to all sessions and specific sections on CDU Moodle site for staff development.
7. New sections were added to the CDU Moodle site which is now integrated with Office 365 for ease of access.

1496 participants across 88 sessions

CDU calendar and Moodle site

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Support of non accreddited initiatives

Faculty Communities of Practice

1. AES provided 2 iterations of a 4 week Adult literacy awareness training to 47 staff across the Education Service to Prisons and those in support roles in FET colleges.
2. New Staff induction programme delivered to 87 staff with follow up section on CDU site
3. Designed, delivered and evaluated our first Emerging Leaders Programme to 77 staff from all service spheres over 2 weeks
4. Designed, delivered and evaluated our first Middle Leaders Programme to 34 staff holding AP1s and AP2s over 3 weeks
5. Designed, delivered and evaluated an EPortfolio project with 8 staff
6. 19 Communities of Practice in operation with 219 staff registered and 11 dedicated facilitators
7. The FET Support teachers PLN designed, facilitated and delivered our first Disability awareness week with 10 events and 209 participants
8. The TELMS Mentoring model has been expanded to all service spheres

19 in total

With 11 facilitators

13 Mentors

TELMS Report 2021/2022

14 Apprentice Mentors

PLD Working Group

In response to feedback from last year's staff and learner surveys, we set up a working group to devise a PLD strategy

The group met in July 2021 to agree the focus. There were 18 members from across the organisation

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An initial term of 6 months was agreed, with an additional 4 months added in Dec 21 where 3 sub groups branched

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A logic model was developed through an iterative process to inform a Statement of Strategy for PLD for 2022-2025

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Everything is informed and underpinned by CDETB's Statement of Strategy and National Strategies

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The Statement of Strategy will be presented to the QADG in October 2022

Financial Assistance for Accreddited Courses

Our mission is to provide professional high quality education and training services for people in Dublin city that contributes both to the personal development of the individual as well as to the overall social, economic and cultural development of the city – helping you Learn, helping you Grow, helping you Develop

In 2021/2022 we have approved financial assistance for staff on the following programes:

32 staff fully funded on a L9 PGC with TCD in Diversity and Inclusion for FET

NCI

TCD

NUIM

6 staff funded on L9 Programme Development and Validation in NUIM

12 staff on NCI L6 and L7 courses in TEL and one in L8 Blended Learning in NUIG

Cert in Learning Technologies and Cert in TEL

Certificate in Programme Design and Validation in FET and Training

Diversity and Inclusion in FET

2 staff on Change Management in NUIG

Partial financial assistance provided for staff on courses relevant to thier area of work and new procedures developed to support this funding process.

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22 staff funded to complete a L7 Dip in Instructional Design

UDL Badge

Universal Design for Learning

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The UDL Badge with AHEAD interweaves with our TELMS programme and how we empower and support staff in the organisation to be inclusive of all by providing multiple means of action and expression, engagement and representation. In 2020/2021 we had 90 staff who completed the 10 week UDL Badge with AHEAD and 37 staff who trained as facilitaors. In 2021/2022 a further 52 CDETB staff completed the Badge as part of a National roll out with . 14 CDETB staff facilitated these groups.

A huge thank you to everyone who has facilitated, supported, contributed and attended any of the items mentioned in this report, and more.......