Continuous Professional Development, CPD, is the process of maintaining and enhancing your knowledge, skills and ability after your initial training, so you can keep up to date and current with best practice.
When instructing, coaching or leading, you are likely to look at your paddlers’ strengths and weaknesses, consider their aims and objectives and look at ways you can support their development.
So why would we, as Instructors, Coaches, Leaders or Guides, not want to do the same for ourselves?
As part of your membership cover as an Instructor, Coach and Leader you have professional indemnity. To be entitled to have this extended cover, you need to ensure you engage in CPD, keeping you current and updated.
British Canoeing’s formal qualifications and awards will count towards your CPD. When you take part in these formal courses your record will be updated automatically. Outside of these programmes, there are lots of informal opportunities that many of us will engage in without even realising it. Have you ever read an article, attended a webinar or observed someone coaching? Any of these could be classed as CPD.
The great thing about CPD is that your development opportunities are directed and controlled by you. This means that you can pick the CPD that’s relevant and interesting to you, that’s delivered in a way that you find engaging and meaningful.
The new CPD process makes it really easy to recognise these informal CPD opportunities, as well as making it easy to submit this information on your membership record.
Currently, we calculate CPD by time and certain formal development opportunities are recognised for 18 months’ or 3 years’ CPD.
From 30 September 2020, we will calculate CPD by points. There will still be a requirement to update your CPD by a certain date and the formal and informal development opportunities that you choose will have a points value associated to them. In order for CPD to be updated, you need to have gained 20 points prior to your expiry date.
British Canoeing training courses and awards will automatically update your record with CPD points.
It will now be easier, simpler and more straightforward to use your learning and development towards your points, no matter where you undertake it. You can now upload any informal learning, simply, through your membership record and we are recognising that there are lots of learning opportunities that can have an impact on your instructing, coaching or leading. You can gain points through informal development opportunities, such as being a mentor/having a mentor, work based annual practice/refresher training or being observed by a line manager/coach developer.
This new system supports you to choose the learning that is right and relevant to your development. We recognise that many coaches and leaders have spent time during lockdown participating in online webinars or community of practice events, reading books or listening to podcasts. These can all count towards your CPD points!
Examples of Courses giving CPD
Personal Skills Development Courses
Leadership Development Courses
Coaching Courses and Endorsements
Safety Training Courses
CPD Courses
British Canoeing or Canoe Wales Provider Training
Examples of CPD Activities
For the activities below, you will need to upload the information on your membership record with examples of evidence.
The great thing about the new CPD process is that your development opportunities are directed and controlled by you. This means that you can pick the CPD that’s relevant and interesting to you, that’s delivered in a way that you find engaging and meaningful.
You can select formal qualifications and awards, such as British Canoeing qualifications and awards, or informal learning and development opportunities. We recognise that many coaches and leaders have spent time during lockdown participating in online webinars or community of practice events, reading books or listening to podcasts. These could all count towards your CPD points!
Read British Canoeing's top tips on what to think about when engaging with different types of CPD:
We know that Leaders already recognise the importance of keeping up to date with best practice, supporting their own learning and development, in order to support those that they lead. We are pleased to formalise this process, enabling Leaders to get recognition for taking the time to undertake development opportunities.
The Update Scheme follows similar principles. You will meet the Update Scheme requirements if the following are up to date:
Over the next few months, we will be providing you with further guidance on how you can consider your individualised development, as well as how to check your current points and how to upload new learning and development episodes.
If you have any questions about the new CPD process or how to update your membership record in GoMembership, please email admin@canoewales.com
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