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DCSF Citizenship CPD meeting for East region teachers

Completion of Eastern Hub CPD certificate 2009-10

The taught sessions for the CPD course have now ended. The presentation sessions have been agreed. These will take place at St Alban’s RC High School in Ipswich on 16th September 2010 from 1615-1800. This will be a twilight. Celia Moore will host this event.

The Portfolio must be handed in on September 27th. Course members should ensure that they have completed the following aspects

1. Complete the SKP and outline an action plan for Citizenship education from the SKP

2. A Scheme of Work covering a minimum of three lessons involving an NGO or other partner and eveidence of observation of teaching the work. Please include any teaching resources with the Scheme of Work

3. The evaluation of Citizenship education at their institution using the ACT SET

4. Evidence of a presentation to peers, senior leaders or others in their institution on the findings from the evaluation or an aspect of the evaluation-usually to be found in the final matrix at the back of the SET

5. Evidence of a the presentation to course members about an aspect of Citizenship education-usually derived from the school evluation, the lesson planning or SKP/action plan

5. A reflective piece of writing about the value and importance of Citizenship education.

Course members can find more advice at the portfolio of evidence CPD web page and below are various downloads to help with the reflective writing and advice about submitting the portfolio at M Level. Additional resources are on the ACT National CPD Certificate web page .

The East of England Hub HEI tutor is Lee Jerome from London Met University. He can be contacted at l.jerome@londonmet.ac.uk

Local Hub contacts are

Celia Moore Celia.Moore@suffolk.gov.uk

Dawn Hewes DAWN.HEWES@essex.gov.uk

Teachers from the East region can sign up on the Plymouth Citizenship CPD website for the 2010-11 course.

Contact details

Regional Citizenship Advisers for East of England

Sue Carter, Assistant Headteacher at Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School, Woods Avenue, Hatfield, Herts. AL10 8NL. Email - scarter@bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk

Jan Bird AST at Notley High School, Notley Road, Braintree, Essex Jan.Bird@notleyhigh.com

Alex Atherton, Assistant Headteacher johnjahn4@aol.com