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DCSF CPD Citizenship Certificate Course in the North East

Completion of the CPD certificate 2009-10

The next meetings for this hub will be to make the presentations. Anne Nelson will co ordinate these twilights.

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 portfolios will be marked by Dr Peter Brett and Stephen Fairbrass. You can contact them at p.brett88@yahoo.com and s.fairbrass@bradfordcollege.ac.uk

Teachers from the North East region should make sure they are registered with Plymouth Citizenship CPD website

Local Hub contact annnelson100@hotmail.co.uk