CILIP: Framework of Qualifications Michael Martin

Adviser, Qualifications & Professional Development

First steps • register as a candidate

• choose a mentor

• design your Personal Professional Development Plan

All documents are on www.cilip.org.uk

Choosing your mentor • Preferably not your line manager• Look outside your organization• You may recognize the name from publications or Groups and Branch• Arrange first meeting • Agree contract: duration and perimeters • Write your PPDP together

Training and development need

Proposed action Anticipated outcome

Expected timescale

Organising, running and evaluating events

Talk to colleagues; Practical experience of running events

Be able to organise and run events

Sept 2010Jan 2011

Indicating how you will develop your participation within the profession e.g. through Branch and Group memberships, professional reading (including e-reading) and other activities

Attend CILIP events; read Update, Gazette, Communities;Attend special interest group meetings, including CDG

Portfolio planning

•Why do we need portfolios?

•What should they contain?

•How should they be organized?

Why do we need portfolios?• For gathering and presenting evidence

• To aid evaluation and reflection

• For appraisal, career change

• To demonstrate professional judgement

• Because they’re essential to the Framework of Qualifications

What should they contain? Chartership•A contents table•CV•PPDP•Personal evaluative statement (1,000 words)•Aims and objectives of organization•Structure chart•Evidence of participation in mentor scheme

What should they contain? Certification• Application form •CV• Personal Statement – (4 x A4 sheets including summary of 250 words) • Personal Development Plan•Supporting letter

How should they be organized?

•Divided into clearly marked sections and securely bound•12 point type•In triplicate, clearly identified•Accompanied by application form and submission fee

The Criteria -- Chartership• an ability to reflect critically on personal performance and to evaluate service performance

• active commitment to continuing professional development

• an ability to analyse personal and professional development and progression with reference to experiential and developmental activities

• breadth of professional knowledge and understanding of the wider professional context

CertificationCandidates must demonstrate:• An ability to evaluate personal performance and service performance

• An understanding of the ways in which their personal, technical and professional skills have developed through training and development activities and/or through practice

• An appreciation of the role and contribution of library & information services in the wider community

RevalidationYou must demonstrate:

• Critical evaluation of personal learning outcomes from a range of training & development activities

• Increased competence in a range of professional & management skills developed through professional practice

•Evidence of CPD through reading, participation in professional affairs, and contribution to or attendance at courses / conferences etc.

Getting started • keep a record and keep everything!

• use a diary, loose leaf binder, online tool: whatever works for you

• complete a skills audit

CPD Audit Sheet

Date Activity What you have learned from this activity

How you have applied it in the workplace

Getting started • be organized and plan your training • allow plenty of time• be ruthless• think evidence

What can go into a portfolio • certificates• staff development reviews/evaluations• contributions to the professional press• project briefs / reports / surveys• active membership of professional networks• training you have delivered - evaluation forms• bibliography• list of visits

What else can go in? • evidence of work-based learning

–responses to enquiries from users/colleagues–publicity you have done–letters/Memos–guidance notes to staff/users–testimonies/Observations

• relevant out of work experiences–case studies

• web pages• audio visual material

–photographs, multimedia

Remember •Pay attention to detail

•Attribute any collaborative work and indicate your own intellectual contribution

•Address the criteria(use the Framework matrix)

The Framework matrix Activity Criterion 1 Criterion 2 Criterion 3 Criterion 4 Evidence

Ability to reflect…

Active commitment…

Ability to analyse…

Breadth of knowledge…

Abstracting with confidence

Able to assess abstracting skills / define where improvement needed

Yes Yes, could put this into the context of my role

I could apply these new skills to another library & Information role

Certificate

How do I know if I’m evaluating?

• if you are not describing

• if you have measured your effectiveness

• if you can demonstrate how you have put into practice what you have learned

• if you are asking questions (and answering them)

Evaluating as questioning

• why do I need to achieve that? why did I do that?

• what did I learn from it?

• did anything change as a result?

• what would I do differently?

What is being measured

The reflective practitioner:

•What have you achieved?

•What have you learned?

•Where are you going?

•What do you need to get there?

Michael MartinAdviser, Qualifications & Professional Development CILIP7 Ridgmount StLondon WC1E 7AE020 7255 0625Michael.Martin@cilip.org.uk