Institute of Education London

Professional Development Portfolio 1

Course Code:MMAMTG_01

A professional development portfolio (PDP) is a working document containing evidence reflection, which you can revise and update throughout your career. Creating and maintaining a PDP will engage you in a process that is now widely recognized as beneficial to ongoing career development. It will encourage you to reflect on knowledge, understanding, and skills learnt from past experiences and current activities, to identify needs, and to plan for future development. Presenting a professional development portfolio for assessment provides a good opportunity for enhancing professional development in teaching. The thought that goes into the careful selection of material, drafting statements, sharing those statements with others, and researching areas related to practice will enable you to articulate your practice in a particular way. Keeping a PDP is a process which should be a natural part of a teacher's professional development planning cycle, and material should be collected and reviewed regularly. It is a working document, forming a record both of work in progress and of critical reflection on that work. The Professional Development Portfolio 1 is the first module undertaken by Master of Teaching (MTeach) participants, and may be available to a limited number of external Masters students. Please contact us mteach@ioe.ac.uk for further details.

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