Ellon Network Staff CPD

Name and Job title:

Vikki Carpenter, Community Learning and Development Worker

Contracted hours: 18.125

** CPD opportunities covers - ALDO training, reading materials, training & conferences attended and iDevelop site.

CPD opportunity
Date
19th February 2013

Good Practice in the Coordination & Management of

Volunteers Programme:
Motivation and Retention of
Volunteers

Details of what CPD covered.

How will this training

be used in practice?
Benefits of motivation, Recognising To assist me in the support
de-motivation, Dealing with deand motivation the adult
motivation, Retention of volunteers literacy volunteers that I work
with on the 1-2-1 literacies
programme

What next?
Build a support network
structure, including regular
meetings as a group and
individually, develop a forum for
ease of communication, review
resources and support they
need.

How many
hours?
4 hours

28th February 2013

Introduction to ESOL

Working with Mixed Ability classes.

Zero preperation
activities.

Feedback to tutors who could Attend the full 3 day ESOL tutor 7 hours
not attend.
training
Assist in development of
materials for ESOL

5th March 2013

Good Practice in the Coordination & Management of

Volunteers Programme:
Support and Supervision of
Volunteers

What contributes to a succcessful

and unsuccessful supervision
session with a volunteer.

To ensure I support and

supervise our volunteers
correctly, shows good
practice

20th March 2013

Peer Review CLD Formatine

and Garioch

Sharing of practice throughout

teams in CLD

Help standardise systems

Continue to share good
and procedures. Enable
practice, forms, information,
good and valued pieces of
systems and procedures.
work to be spread out through
whole team. Assists
networking opportunities.

Build a support network

4 hours
structure, including regular
meetings as a group and
individually, develop a forum for
ease of communication, review
resources and support they
need.
4 hours

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3 Day Training: ESOL in CLD

Increase awareness of the

complexities of language teaching
and learning.
Increase practitioners knowledge of
ESOL specific teaching methods.
Provide practitioners with some
teaching techniques.
Help practitioners source materials
and plan learning sessions.
Look at the type of learners and
their specific, cultural and language
transfer needs.
Increase awareness of ESOL
teaching in community settings and
CLD approach.

To develop ESOL
opportunites in Ellon and rural
areas.
To enable
me to support ESOL tutors
effectively.
To
enable me to deliver ESOL
tutoring.

Research need for ESOL in and 20 hours

around Ellon.
Develop a
programme that suits the needs
of the community.

24th April 2013

Building the Capacity of

Capacity Builders

Business Planning
Duties of Trustees under OSCR

To enable me to give full

support, up to date advice
and guidance to community
groups such as Castlepark
Community House

Develop folder of information

and examples of constitutions,
roles and responsibilities,
letting forms etc

26th April 2013

CLD Strategies

CLD strategic planning team day

Influence and focus core

Team Development plans
projects.
Standardise working practice
to CLD stratagies.
Awareness of target client
groups
Enhanced partnership
working within E,L&L

29th May 2013

Delivering Numeracy with

Confidence

Terminology used within Numeracy. To support tutors with

Make maths fun, examples of
delivering numeracy to
games and activities to use with
learners.
learners.
To have an
understanding of the training
tutors attend and feedback
information to those who
could not.

Develop numeracy resources

for tutors to use
Deliver feedback and
information to tutors

6 hours

5 hours

6 hours

5th June 2013

Introduction to Literacy

What is grammar and punctuation

Activities for learners
Back to basics

27th June 2013

CLD Development Day

Partnerships
Ellon Development Plan

4th September 2013 CLDW literacies meeting

Met with other CLD workers to

discuss tutor training needs, plan
schedule and share good practice
and procedures

To support tutors with

delivering literacy to learners.
To
have an understanding of the
training tutors attend and
feedback information to those
who could not.
Share good practice
Involvement and needs of
partners and communities
Development plan for
2014/2015

Develop literacy resources for

tutors to use
Deliver feedback and
information to tutors

6 hours

Ellon Development Plan

Partnership Planning and
Agreements

5 hours

Develop better networking

within CLD to enhance
sharing for information,
systems and procedures

Set up a CLDW adult literacies 1.5 hours

support network
Deliver tutor training in Ellon

10th September 2013 Mens Shed Information Event Attended promotional event to raise Increase knowledge to be
Keep up to date of
awareness of 'Mens Sheds' and
able to promote and inform
developments in Formartine
future development in Formartine
communities of 'Mens Sheds'
area

1.5 hours

9th October 2014

Fire Extinguisher DVD session Watch DVD on Equality and

Whistleblowing

Follow Council policies and

procedures

0.5 hours

18th October 2013

Action research - Pathways to Conference on Health and

Health and Wellbeing
Wellbeing CARN

Increase knowledge to be
able to promote 'Health and
Wellbeing' benfits within
Communities

Continue to keep up to date

with policies
i-develop and Aldo
Disseminate to Tutors
Assist with research into DNA
of Ellon and rural communities

23rd October 2013

Annual Adult Learning

Conference The Power of
Adult Learning

Networking opportunity
Workshops on Dyslexia and HIC

Develop better links with

partners and agencies such
as Dyslexia Scotland
Use HIC or similar in
Formartine CLD

Investigate HIC for future

programme CLD could offer
Better support and resources
for tutors and learners working
with Dyslexia

7 hours

Information meeting on substance

misuse and screening training for
CLD
Information on updating
qualifications to assess Core Skills

Better understanding of
support for learners with
history of substance misuse
Assess Core Skills for Ellon
CLD

Attend FAST training

1 hour

Set up portfolio recording

assessing evidence

4 hours

20th November 2013 Elaine Dawson

10th December 2013 Core Skills Assessor Training

6 hours

Ellon Network Staff CPD

Name and Job title:

Vikki Carpenter, Community Learning and Development Worker

Contracted hours: 18.125

** CPD opportunities covers - ALDO training, reading materials, training & conferences attended and iDevelop site.

CPD opportunity

Details of what CPD covered.

PG Dip in CLD
Weekly activites can include:
Reading Books and
Journals Online tutorials and
seminars Study Sessions
online or face to face
Course
assignments and creative
tasks
Core Skills Assessor
Standardisation Meeting

All areas and aspects of CLD

practice

How will this training

be used in practice?
To enhance my knowledge
and practice

Networking with others

Workshop on competencies
Updates on legislation and internal
policies and procedures

Continue working on porfolio of 2

To enhance my knowledge
and practice
evidence for internal assessing
To ensure I understand award
and follow SQA requirements

12th January 2014

Ellon Network Lunch

Networking with partners and

agencies in Ellon, with focused
discussions on needs arising for the
communities

2
Greater understandng of
Continue attending network
community needs, as well as lunches and use opportunity to
enhance relationshipswith
enhamce my practice
partners

26th March 2014

Support and Supervision

Enhance practice

work on action points

1st April 2014

Youth Work Session with

Brenda

Review of practice with Line

Manager
Meeting todiscuss and enhance my
knowledge of CLD Ellon Youth Work
projects

Better understanding of
projects to improve support I
can offer to the team

2
Work with Brenda on
supporting Youth Work projects
and session workersq

Date
Jan 2014 - June
2015

6th January 2014

What next?
Natural feed into masters,
should I want to continue and
feel capable

How many
hours?
11+ hours
per on
week
average

1.5

8th May 2014

Core Skills Assessor

Standardisation Meeting

Networking with others

Workshop on competencies
Updates on legislation and internal
policies and procedures

8th May 2014

Building Assessor's Portfolio

Workshop

Guidance on writing evidence

statements

9th May 2014

Cognisoft Goal Setting

26th May 2014

1st July 2014

Fire Extinguisher Training

Credit Union

11th September 2014 Core Skills Awareness

workshop
16th September 2014 Support and Supervision
24th September 2014 Ellon Network Lunch

Continue working on porfolio of 2

To enhance my knowledge
and practice
evidence for internal assessing
To ensure I understand award
and follow SQA requirements

To assist in my portfolio
building skills for assessing
Core Skills
Workshop on new aspect of
To enable us to record goals
software programme
and achievements for
individuals and groups
How to safely use fire extenguishers To improve knowledge
Info awareness session on Credit
To improve knowledge
Union
Training session on delivering Core To learn the programme
Skills awareness to others
Review of practice with Line
Enhance practice
Manager
Networking with partners and
Greater understandng of
agencies in Ellon, with focused
community needs, as well as
discussions on needs arising for the enhance relationshipswith
communities
partners

Continue working on porfolio of 2

evidence for internal assessing
award
Update current projects on
1
cognisoft
N/A
Promote information to tutors

1
2

Deliver to tutors

work on action points

1.5

2
Continue attending network
lunches and use opportunity to
enhamce my practice

25th September

North Alliance Conference

Networking and various workshops

on CLD practice

Enhance practice

8th October 2014

Family Learning Practioners

Network

Networking with others and

workshops on family learning
practice, in Prisons, PEEP and
others

Enhamce practice and gain

knowledge on other services

13th November 2014 Core Skills Assessor

Standardisation Meeting

Networking with others

Workshop on competencies
Updates on legislation and internal
policies and procedures

To enhance my knowledge
Continue working on porfolio of 2
and practice
evidence for internal assessing
To ensure I understand award
and follow SQA requirements

24th November 2014 Formartine Team Meeting

Share good practice

Enhance practice

Put new found knowledge into

practice and disseminate to
others
Put new found knowledge into
practice and disseminate to
others

Put new found knowledge into

practice and disseminate to
others

2nd December 2014 Outcome Star Training

Learn a new evaluation and

assessment tool

Enhance practice

Use outcome star as

6
assessment and evaluation with
learners once registered
Total Hours

47

Ellon Network Staff CPD

Name and Job title:

Vikki Carpenter, Community Learning and Development Worker

Contracted hours: 18.125

** CPD opportunities covers - ALDO training, reading materials, training & conferences attended and iDevelop site.

CPD opportunity
Date

Details of what CPD covered.

How will this training

be used in practice?

What next?

How many
hours?