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DCSF Citizenship CPD course South and South East Hub
Completion of the CPD Course 2009-10
The taught CPD course sessions have now ended. The next Big Saturday for this hub is Saturday September 18th at South Downs College, Havant near Portsmouth. The session will be in the Committee Room and will be for the group presentations about an aspect of Citizenship education that members have developed over the course.
Additional resources from the final July 17th Big Saturday regarding Controversial Issues, Campaigning and Whole School Citizenship can be found below.
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 South/SouthEast hub HEI tutor is Ralph Leighton from Christ Church Canterbury University. He can be contacted at ralph.leighton@canterbury.ac.uk
Teachers can register interest at Plymouth CPD website for the 2010-11 course.
ACT in the Southeast and South
Your Regional Support Advisors contact details
Collette Iglinski - ciglinski@swadelands.kent.sch.uk Swadelands School, Lenham, Maidstone Tel: 01622 858267
Keira Price - kprice@invicta.kent.sch.uk Head of Citizenship, Invicta Grammar Maidstone
Who can help?
For advice and support regarding Citizenship education, contact the ACT Professional Officer Chris Waller via Chris.waller@teachingcitizenship.org.uk
Useful Documents - Right click to download
Uploaded : 21 January 2010
Filename : module_contents2.rtf ( 6 K )
Description : A list of the core modules for the CPD Certificate course.
Reading list for the CPD course
Uploaded : 25 March 2010
Filename : some_key_readings_for_the_cpd_certificate_course1.rtf ( 8 K )
Description : Key readings for the CPD course
Advice for creating the reflective piece of writing for the portfolio
Uploaded : 14 June 2010
Filename : why_citizenship_education_is_important_to_me_and_how_this_is_reflected_in_my_teaching4.doc ( 10 K )
Description :
A letter about the M Level from Plymouth University
Uploaded : 07 July 2010
Filename : notice_course_members_-_masters_opportunity_v20.doc ( 25 K )
Description :
Tackling the three critical writing tasks
Uploaded : 19 July 2010
Filename : tackling__the_three_critical_writing_tasks_with_ref_to_units.doc ( 42 K )
Description : Advice on writing the three tasks for M Level submission
Controversial Issues PowerPoint
Uploaded : 19 July 2010
Filename : teaching_controversial_issues1.ppt ( 753 K )
Description :
Uploaded : 19 July 2010
Filename : campaigning-the_heart_of_citizenship_education0.ppt ( 11.13 MB )
Description :
Whole School Citizenship PowerPoint
Uploaded : 19 July 2010
Filename : considering_whole_school_citizenship_education.ppt ( 5.97 MB )
Description :
Uploaded : 19 July 2010
Filename : stocksbridge_manifesto.pdf ( 788 K )
Description :
Whole School Citizenship education issues
Uploaded : 19 July 2010
Filename : whole_school_issues_by_don_rowe.pdf ( 273 K )
Description : A background briefing document written by Don Rowe
