Cpd

[chris cnc]

this may be a thick question but i honestly don't know the answer.

 

regarding continued professional development- asides from lectures/ seminars, what "counts" as cpd?

 

my goals include gaining a tech cert and having a career on the more "academic" side, possibly involving tree inspections and the like.

 

i am going to start attending lectures and seminars but i want to know what i could be doing in the meantime to help my development.

 

any recommended reading materials? studies/investigations of trees off your own back, does this count? does hours and hours of arbtalk count?

 

sorry if the question is a little clumsy. i just thought i don't want to turn around in 10 years time and think "i could have done so much in that time"

 

thanks

[arbclimber]

Its all about logging the hours mate. Any cpd has an amount of hours (credits) attached to it.

 

You need to find out from whoever it is, you are wanting to be credited by.

 

For me, its the Chartered Institute of Marketing. I even get 30 mins CPD credit just for reading their magazine ' The Marketer' so there must be other ways you can get credit.

 

Sorry I cant be more specific, dont know much about Arb qualifications.

[Guest Shoei]

Here you go mate. http://www.trees.org.uk/downloads/CPDproforma.pdf

[Ian H]

Hi chris, I'd recommend looking at the AA website, they've got listing of hours req'd and type of cpd applicable, the list below was copy/pasted from the site.

'The form overleaf aims to make it easier to document the CPD you have undertaken.

Fellows should complete 50 hours of CPD over a three-year period and Professional Members

should complete 40 hours of CPD over a three-year period.

The CPD should include at least two of the following:

Home-based learning (H)

Private study, structured reading on particular themes or topics. Use of audio, video or multi-media

resources and other distance-learning material

Action-based learning (A)

A systematic, structured approach to the solving of problems in the workplace

Preparation of material (M)

For course, technical meetings or publication in the technical press

Reseach ®

Supervised research

Work based development (W)

Background reading, research or preparation required to tackle a new area of work

Arboricultural Association activities (P)

Of a technical or professional nature

Conferences ©

Conferences, seminars, workshops or other technical and professional events and meetings,

including in-house training

Qualification (Q)

Courses leading to a qualification'

 

Also they have guides relating to qualifications and their relative grading compared to similar, AA tech cert is level 3 same as ND Arb(relating to your previous thread abound surveys).

 

Hope this helps:thumbup:

Edited May 19, 2010 by Ian H
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[chris cnc]

thanks guys that's a big help.

 

it appears that i can become a tech member of the AA with my ND and get discounts on seminars etc.

 

as the ND and tech cert are both level 3 courses, is there any need to to the tech cert? or would it be more beneficial to progress to a level 4 course or higher?

 

also: if, for example, i were to go to the woods and VTA/ inspect a tree and record my findings, as practice, would this count towards my CPD? work based development maybe?

 

thanks again

[David Humphries]

Chris, it's my understanding that the Tech Cert is in developement, and may become a two tiered qualification.

 

Presumably, this may open the opportunity for acheiving a higher level than your ND.

 

I would say, in terms of future Consultancy, that if oportunity allows, you should continue the educational route onwards & upwards.

 

 

David

 

 

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[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Hi Chris,

 

(Very) good question.

 

My advise to enquirers here at the AA is that any, and all, learning opportunities that result in an advancement of your knowledge, be it in arb / business management / marketing / IT or whatever is 'CPD'.

 

However in so far as CPD goes to support either an applictaion for AA memebrship at Tech. level or above OR to meet the mandatory CPD requiremenst of memebrship, a large proportion (50+%?) should be 'related', i.e. arb/forestry/ecology etc.

 

Further many bodies allot CPD hrs, or points, to events/seminars/conferences etc. that they run BUT this should not be assumed, it should be considered (WOT?!!!) If any event has 5 hrs CPD allotted, but actually you only learened new stuff for half of it the you shouold only log half the time (2.5hrs)....an idealism too far maybe?!

 

Hoping this to be of help (a first Mr Smith?..ha!)

 

Apologies for the wrose than ever spellings n grammar...I'm knackered (old age!)

 

Cheers..

Paul

[chris cnc]

nice one cheers guys