This document discusses continuous professional development. It defines continuous professional development as the ongoing process of developing, maintaining, and documenting professional skills, both formally through courses and training, and informally through on-the-job learning. It presents two views of professional development: the narrow view focuses on acquiring specific skills to address new requirements, while the broad view enhances knowledge, skills, thinking, understanding and maturity. The document also lists some needs for professional development like having appropriate qualifications and the ability to share expertise, and provides examples of avenues for professional development such as reading groups, action research, and giving sessions.

1. Unit 5:
Need and Avenues of Continuous
Professional Development
Presented by: Khan Sadika
Roll No: 16

2. CONTENTS
• Definition of Continuous Professional Development
• Two ways of Professional Development:
1. Narrow
2. Broad
• Need of Professional Development
• Ways for Professional Development

3. What is Continuous
Professional Development
• Continuous Professional Development or CPD, is the
ongoing process of developing, maintaining and
documenting your professional skills.
• These skills maybe gained formally, through courses or
training, or informally, on the job by watching others.

4. Conceives CPD as a much
deeper, wider & longer term
process, in which the
professionals enhance not only
their knowledge & skills, but also
their thinking, understanding &
maturity.
Narrow View
Acquire some specific sets of
skills & knowledge in order to
deal with some specific new
requirements like attending
teachers training to handle new
textbooks or to use new
teachings.
Broad View

5. Appropriate, up to date
qualifications
Access to new research Opportunities to share
expertise
Opposition for discipline
renewal
Additional support Promotions
Need of Professional Development

6. Experts Help Online
Communities
Informal Talks Individual
Reading
Avenues for Professional Development
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03
02
04

7. Reading
Groups
Action Research
Giving
Session
Writing
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07
06
08

8. Ways for Professional Development
1
Engaging in new
professional
activities & doing
things for the first
time.
2
Peer observation
or participating in
projects in a group
with fellow
professionals.
3
Exploring different
methods,
strategies &
techniques within
the parameters of
emerging
paradigm
4
Following
reflective &
explorative
practices
5
Forming a local
group like English
clubs to discuss &
take turns to lead
sessions.