This document provides information about professional development for staff at Bridge Mills Galway Language Centre. It discusses the importance of professional development for both personal growth and organizational objectives. It outlines a process for staff and the school to evaluate strengths and needs, set goals, and develop a professional development plan. This includes reviewing past development activities, assessing present skills and interests, and planning future training opportunities to meet individual and organizational goals. The document also describes external recognition available through the EAQUALS scheme for continuous professional development.

1. Bridge Mills Galway Language Centre
Patrick Creed and Alan O’Connor
Personal Development
and
Performance Reviews

2. What is professional
development?
Penny Ur
‘ 20 years’ experience or one year’s experience
repeated 20 times’
(A course in Language Teaching 1996 CUP)
Jeremy Harmer
‘ holding up mirrors to our practice’
(The Practice of English Language Teaching-, 2007, Pearson Longman)

3. Why do we need professional
development?
• Helps development of organisation
• Helps personal development
• Staff feel valued
• Staff feel organisation is invested in their
development
• Meets external accreditation needs

4. Professional development
Where do you start?
Meet with staff
School Objectives – Professional training and
development Plan?
What are Individual Objectives?

5. Staff/School
What is our relationship?
• Who are we?
(You and Bridge Mills Galway Language Centre)
• How can we be better?

6. Why do I need to develop?
• I want to learn more
• I get bored – I need a challenge
• I want to work elsewhere
• I want to go overseas
• I want to do further study (e.g. H. Dip)
• I want a pay rise
• You want me to!

7. The Past
• What have you done to date?

8. Professional development to date

9. Professional development to
date contd.
• Online training (Cambridge Teacher/Oxford teacher)
• Cambridge Speaking examiner training
• Cambridge exams invigilator training
• First aid training
• Other (Self Directed Research?)

10. How have I shared my
development?
• Communicate with colleagues?
• Presentations?

11. The Present
• Where am I now?

12. Wheel of life
Grade 1 to 10
(George Pickering - Management Training workshop - EAQUALS conference April 2016)

13. Personal SWOT

14. The Future
• What next?

15. YOUR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
• What I can offer?
• What I would like to achieve?

16. What next?
• What do I want to achieve?
• What does the school want?
• How can we meet those challenges?

17. Professional development to follow

18. Professional development to follow
contd.
• Online training (Cambridge Teacher/Oxford
teacher)
• Cambridge Speaking examiner training
• Cambridge exams invigilator training
• First aid training
• Other (Self Directed Research?)

19. Professional development REVIEW
• What did we do as an organisation?
• Did we meet our organisational goals?
• Did we meet personal goals?
• What next?

20. Eaquals Recognition Scheme
• EAQUALS recognition of Continuing
Professional Development
Aim of the project
• ‘To enable Eaquals accredited institutions to
issue a formal report detailing an individual
employee’s CPD achievements and activities
over a given time period, and with official
Eaquals recognition for the local scheme.’ ©

21. What do you do?
What about your organisation?
Any questions?

22. Contact Us
• Patrick Creed – director@galwaylanguage.com
• Alan O’Connor –
academicmanager@galwaylanguage.com