Many countries are now moving from a knowledge and skills-based CME system, towards a system that promotes the wide-ranging competencies needed to practice high-quality education. CPD is the holistic commitment of professionals towards the enhancement of personal skills and proficiency throughout their careers.

CPD Explained

CPD Learning Types

Structured CPD / Active Learning

Structured CPD / active learning involves interactive and participation-based study. It is typically proactive and can include attending a training course, conference, workshop, seminar, lecture, e-learning course or CPD certified event.

CPD active learning also applies to when professionals take career orientated exams and assessments (the study and revision would be considered self-directed learning, see Self-Directed CPD).

Stages of the CPD cycle

Act:

Act upon your plan, and be open to learning experiences.

Reflect:

Make the most of your day-to-day learning by routinely reflecting upon experience.

Apply:

Create opportunities where you can translate theory into practice and put your learning to work.

Evaluating Results

CPD results are evaluated through:

1- Knowledge.                          2-practice.                           3- Behavior.

What is accredited CPD Training?

‘What is CPD’ and ‘How to become CPD accredited’ are common queries discussed across the varying industries. Accredited CPD

training means the learning activity has reached the required

Continuing Professional Development standards and benchmarks.

The learning value has been scrutinized to ensure integrity and quality.

The CPD Certification Service provides recognized independent CPD accreditation compatible with global CPD requirements.

CPD cycle steps

Step 1 - Initial review

A good way to plan your learning is; to create a CPD log 

To start, a helpful tool is: the AMP Competence Framework. This self-assessment will help you identify current and future areas to further develop your project skills and knowledge, and assist you in establishing any learning objectives for the coming year.

Step2 - Plan

Identify the competences and areas that you’d like to focus your learning on. Develop specific objectives - decide the activities that will support your development.

These activities should be chosen to meet the APM CPD scheme.

You can use the APM CPD log  to start your planning.

Include learning activities that can help you to develop these areas.

It is good to include a range of activities.

Step 3 - Do

Carry out the activities that you planned. You may also find that you gain learning from activities that you did not originally plan. You can add these to your CPD log too.

Step 4 - Review

Planning and reflecting on your CPD helps to create value out of the learning that you have done. Review your learning – how have you applied your learning to your project related work? Is there anything that you have done differently as a result?

Or perhaps it has reinforced the approach that you have been taken and confirmed that alternative approaches would not have fitted with what you were doing?

Purposes of CPD :

1-CPD is concerned with maintaining knowledge and skills. More recently, this would be summarized as maintaining one’s competence or competencies; in other words, CPD is about keeping up-to-date.

2-CPD improves and broadens knowledge and skills; that is, CPD is intended to support future professional development.

3-CPD develops personal qualities necessary to execute professional and technical duties; such personal qualities as may be needed to achieve the above two purposes.

Continuing Professional Development is essential in helping individuals, organizations or entire industries to keep skills and knowledge up to date.

Providing CPD enables organizations to become a knowledge bank to key stakeholders of your organization.

CPD accredited training courses, workshops and events allow professionals to use the learning time towards individual CPD requirements.

1-For Individuals

Continuing Professional Development helps individuals to regularly focus on how they can become a more competent and effective professional. Training and learning increase confidence and overall capability, and compliments career aspirations. CPD enables individuals to adapt positively to changes in work/industry requirements.

Planning CPD helps to be more efficient with time, and recording CPD properly provides evidence of professional development (this can be useful for supervision and appraisals). CPD shows a clear commitment to self-development and professionalism.

CPD provides an opportunity for an individual to identify knowledge gaps and to resolve these in a recognizable approach to improvement.

learning have been met.

2-For Organizations

Providing CPD accredited learning benefits your organization through recognition and increased brand perception. Internal use of Continuing Professional Development encourages and promotes a healthy learning culture for your organization, leading to a more fulfilled workforce and retaining valuable staff.

Many organizations have staff with CPD obligations as members of professional bodies. In circumstances where internal CPD training resources are low, organization use outsourced CPD training providers to meet staff requirements. Outsourced CPD providers are typically training companies, online learning resources, events & conference organizers

. They are experts in their field and provide practical learning opportunities through CPD events, seminars and accredited CPD courses. Some CPD courses are just 1 or 2 hours long, delivered in a seminar or classroom-style environment. Other accredited CPD courses can be a full 6-10 weeks program, split into structured bite-size modules.

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1-Listening Skill / listening Sub-skills / Listening Activities.

2-Speaking Skill / Speaking sub-skills / Speaking Activities..

3- Reading Skill  / Reading Sub-skills / Reading Activities.

4-Writing Skill / Writing Sub-skills / Writing Activities.

5-Cultural Awareness skill

6-Role of assessment 

7-Assessment and Evaluation page.

8-Multiple Choice test requirements

9-Learning / Pedagogy and Assessment.

10-Testing mistakes to avoid.