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Four steps to organic CPD

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The call for a reshaping of CPD in Scotland has been getting steadily stronger. Former national CPD co-ordinator Margaret Alcorn gives her four strategies for success in developing the right learning culture in your school.

Over the years, I have grown weary of spending too many hot afternoons at CPD sessions in dusty rooms being told things that it seems I need to know by “experts”. 

Often the expert has some really interesting ideas, and a very engaging manner of delivery, but I have usually forgotten the key messages within a few days as routine and the day job takes over. It can sometimes feel a bit like a visit to the local supermarket, where there are lots of choices on display but it is not always easy to find just the ingredients that will make your next meal memorable.

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