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 * Using this wiki for CPD.**

There are many different models for Continuing Professional Development. This wiki is intended to enable independent, reflective work to enhance professional practice. The development in this case the development will be focussed on using debate and pupil talk and other tools for exploring contemporary science.

Before embarking on any development activity, you should consider your aims and focus. Good training starts with a needs analysis exercise - asking yourself what the specific aims and benefits of training are to you, your pupils and the wider school. Typically, training then introduces new ideas to participants and allows them to evaluate them against their own practice, trying out or modelling new activities where appropriate. A chance to plan how to put new approaches into place should follow, so that they can be implemented properly. Finally, once the training has been used in the classroom, practitioners should reflect on the process, identifying areas for further development, successes and lessons learned. This information should not be lost but should feed back into the development cycle. Extensive free training information on reflective practice is available from Andrew Pollard's site Reflective Teaching.

Development activities here will focus on:

Debate and pupil talk in science

Using new web technologies

Setting up a project

Before using the material, consider your own needs analysis.

How can this training be built on? You may decide to set up your own contemporary science project, in which case, please share links to any useful materials via this site. Please add a brief case study if you think that it will be of use to others. Funding suggestions are always helpful. You can start a new wiki page for case studies or link to sites from successful projects via this page.
 * Where next?**

You may decide to run a little CPD in school.

You may wish to pursue the issues further through an Action Research project. There may be funding for some action research projects through the Science Learning Centre network.