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[Geronimo]

"Why should I do CPD?
As a professional, you have a responsibility to keep your skills and knowledge up to date.
CPD helps you turn that accountability into a positive opportunity to identify and achieve your own career objectives.
CPD is an opportunity to do yourself some good; the nature and scale of the benefit depends entirely on you.
The credibility of our profession is based on the willingness of each professional to embrace new skills, knowledge and experience.

Answers to other 'Frequently asked questions' about
Continuing Professional Development -
as provided by the experts in the field,
the cipd, are available at....
http://www.cipd.co.uk/cpd/CPDFAQ.htm?IsSrchRes=1

Geronimo

[balqis]

You cannot be an expert at CPD. There is no expertise in CPD. This is all mincing words and power play.
Ask any decent philosopher, best of science or logic: are there any laws in education. There are none. All of education is a piece of fluff. Or hot air.
So the educattional experts, regardless of then number of their degrees, are experts in fluff and hot air. Ask them to point to at least one single law in their expertise area. They probably would not know what you are asking about and for.
Educational experts should be banned.
Teachers only matter.

balqis

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

Well, there is the "Law of Diminishing Returns" which is proven by the fact that the more you try to conscienciously do your job and follow the 'to be seen on the wall, but not to be folllowed in practice' rules, the more unpopular you become with yer "students" and the lower your student evaluations become, thereby leading to dismissal/non-renewal of contract and thus;...lessened returns...

NCTBA (That wuz too easy...)

[ckhl]

I have also seen MA's who feel the more copies you throw on the students the better teacher you are. They feel they can sit back while the students plod through the exercises. But, "They have their MA's" so that makes them good. Sorry but REAL evidence doesn't support the fantasy.

Give it a rest. Let it go. It's this sense of importance that I find exasperating and, well, misplaced.

[Geronimo]

Part of the cipd's main text on CPD, is available at:-
http://books.google.com/books?id=a-LG9lZMlWUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22David+Megginson%22&hl=en&ei=ATizTL3uO8_Aswbzv7S3DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw&safe=active#v=onepage&q&f=false

I studied 'Employee Development' under Prof. David Megginson
back in the early 80's. As far as I'm concerned he is one of cipd's experts in this field.
It's good to know that he's still lighting the way almost 30 years on.

Geronimo

[winterwawa]

This entire thread sounds like a discussion one would find on the comedy TV series "The Big Bang Theory." What I haven't quite come to terms with, yet, is whether that is a good thing or a bad thing.

[bradley]

Wouldn't a BA also lose it's value?

[winterwawa]

If an MA and a BA lose their value, then logic has it that a high school diploma would also lose it's value. So, the only logical conclusion we can draw is that once we finish our highest level of education, whether that is a BA, an MA or a PhD, we must begin all over again. Why? Because everything we have ever learned about everything we ever studied has become either outdated, obsolete or otherwise useless. It is my believe that this reeducation actually does take place, but people are mostly unaware of the fact that they are being reeducated. I am postulating that this reeducation takes place vicariously though our offspring, which begs the question: how do those people who never have children keep up with changes in the world of math, history, and the sciences?

Anyone care to comment?

[veiledsentiments]

We remain happily ignorant of them and are the better for it...

VS