Staff Development

Over at Ferl (Further Education Resources for Learning) they’ve just revised & reissued the first four of their excellent ‘What the Research Says’ series of leaflets, including Teachers continuing professional development.

The keen eyed amongst you will have noticed that staff development/career enhancement was an obvious theme missing from my earlier ‘Work in Progress’ post on my staff presentation. Although it’s an important issue I don’t think that sane teaching staff are driven to ILT in the hope of a pay rise. OK, we all live in the real world, but what motivates and excites staff about ILT are the opportunities technologies offer to readdress & re-translate (notice I held back on ‘transform’) their teaching and learning aims, effectively, in the classroom.

Of course that doesn't mean that we can underestimate the importance of staff development.

The AOC (Association of Colleges) NILTA (National Information & Learning Technologies Association) 2004 Conference theme is Innovation in Staff Development - Thursday 13th May 2004 at Kent’s Hill Management College, Milton Keynes.

Ever get the feeling that acronyms may well be some diabolical form of revenge?