CPD - Continued Professional Development

[sloth]

Can anybody explain this please?!

How do you know what counts as points towards it, and how many? What about keeping a record, proof of attendance to events, a note of time spent reading what? Perhaps I'm being dense but I can't seem to find out myself.

Cheers all....

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Can anybody explain this please?!

How do you know what counts as points towards it, and how many? What about keeping a record, proof of attendance to events, a note of time spent reading what? Perhaps I'm being dense but I can't seem to find out myself.

Cheers all....

 

Hi there,

 

CPD (continuing professinal development) is essentially any form of learning / advancing that helps to keep you current and up-to-date. Traditionally we all think of attendnace at conferences or seminars or short-courses etc. but it can be other stuff too.

 

This can include pratcial skills advancements, or learning anew skill, reading industry mags, internet research, ARBTALK, observations of demo;s at trade fairs, discussions (of the right knid)...basically anything that moves you forward.

 

The hard part is sometimes identifying it and recording it, or rather remembering to record it (perhaps the atcahed form may help, don;t worry it;s an AA thing!)

 

Formally, some courses etc. will say it qualifies for, for instance, 5hrs CPD and people simply put that on the record. However if only 3 of those 5 hours were new stuff that moved you forward you shold only record that...no-one does tho!

 

Reet, there, 'simples' eh?

 

I hope this helps, at least a litte.

 

 

Good luck..

Paul

CPD-form-v5-180612 (2).doc

[David Humphries]

Reet, there, 'simples' eh?

 

I hope this helps, at least a litte.

 

Good luck..

Paul

 

 

Thanks Paul,

 

really guilty of not recording my CPD

 

proforma will help a lot

 

 

D

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Thanks Paul,

 

really guilty of not recording my CPD

 

proforma will help a lot

 

 

D

 

Tut, tut...mine's always completely up-to-date...for the last decade!

 

Glad to be of service Sir!

 

Cheers David, n have good weekend.

Paul

[David Humphries]

Tut, tut...mine's always completely up-to-date...for the last decade!

 

Indeed, no excuse, must try harder.

 

I get a little complacent with it as I'm in a very privalleged position and get a lot of work cpd as well as what I do in my own time.

 

Had the oportunity to take in the great (but ever so slightly eccentric) Ollie Rackham yesterday at Camden Town Hall with the LTOA.

As always a very interesting couple of hours.

 

Glad to read that you/AA percieve the interaction at Arbtalk as CPD.

I think its a given, but good to see that out in the open

 

 

.

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Indeed, no excuse, must try harder.

 

Glad to read that you/AA percieve the interaction at Arbtalk as CPD.

I think its a given, but good to see that out in the open

 

 

.

 

Without a doubt David, I too have learned much on ARBTALK thanks to people like yourself and others who make invaluable contributions.

 

I promote this forum, and thank Steve 'n co.' for it's development, at most training events I deliver...because it has helped me, n I'm supposed to know a thing or two

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Sloth, its ever so easy to log up hours on CPD, and generaly just about anything you do to learn about arboriculture counts, like Paul says.

 

I think that say to be a ISA master arborist you have to have 50 hours CPD between assesments for renewal (would need confirming) but a typical tep seminar is 5 hours allocation, add your book reading, pdf downloads etc and your time on here and 50 hours soon racks up

[sloth]

Sloth, its ever so easy to log up hours on CPD, and generaly just about anything you do to learn about arboriculture counts, like Paul says.

 

50 hours soon racks up

 

50 hrs would add up, very quickly!

[Gary Prentice]

50 hrs would add up, very quickly!

 

I don't think 'what's the best saw?', Favourite tv weather girls or land rover v hi-lux threads count though:lol:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I don't think 'what's the best saw?', Favourite tv weather girls or land rover v hi-lux threads count though:lol:

 

 

I think you might be right there!