What Does Professional Registration Mean for You Angela

What Does Professional Registration Mean for You? Angela Jardine Chair, Education Workforce Council

Being a member of a professional body (the EWC) will offer a number of benefits for you. For example, working with Welsh Government, the National Training Federation Wales, Colleges Wales, WBL providers and other stakeholders the Council will: • raise the status and standing of the education workforce • improve public understanding of your contribution to education in Wales • maintain public confidence in the education workforce • promote professional development • establish professional standards across the education workforce • provide advice to the Welsh Government on education workforce issues • promote recruitment to the education workforce

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PASSPORT (PLP) • E portfolio for you to record your CPD, reflect on it and plan your career path • National, online from EWC website • Stays with you if you change setting • Useful tools and links Ø Performance Management Ø Learning Wales Ø Hwb Ø Research • Free training

“This is one snappy little number that collects just about anything the user wants to put into it to build up a holistic picture of the user that can be used in a whole range of ways, from a reflective journal as part of a qualification to a full blown interactive CV and record of CPD. ”

Events

Research engagement group We host a Research Engagement Group (REG) comprised of practitioners and others with experience of, and interest in, research in the areas of teaching and learning in order to: • Support our work in the area of research, including facilitating critical access by education practitioners to research • Promote engagement by practitioners in, and with, research • Promote engagement between practitioners and others engaging in research, including HEI-based researchers.

KEY POINTS FOR YOU Your registration • Keep your record on the Register up to date • Try the PLP • Take a look at the Code and read the good practice guides Get Involved • Become a panel or Council member • Write for website, tweet us, showcase your work Stay informed • Termly email • Website, Twitter, E newsletter • More EWC sessions e. g. PLP training, social media training

CONTACT DETAILS Telephone 029 2046 0099 E-mail media@ewc. wales Website www. ewc. wales Twitter @ewc_cga E newsletter Subscribe from website

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