Professional Exchange
ETF/WMCETT’s West Midlands Learning Consortium Professional Exchange
CPD events
WMCETT is delivering a strand of the Education and Training Foundation’s Professional Exchange #2
programme.
We are establishing the West Midlands Learning Consortium to run one of the pilot projects for a
Professional Exchange across the wider West Midlands region.
It will consist of:
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Eight FREE CPD events held across the Midlands with expert facilitators and a free lunch
provided, with details of content shaped by those attending
Participants contribute to everyone’s learning and share ideas and resources
Access afterwards to an online forum to continue sharing and working on ideas
Support to continue networking
Invitation to a free showcase event in the autumn
So far, dates and venues have been agreed for four of the eight Professional Exchange meetings.
These are:
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Friday, April 22: Loughborough College: Keeping safe in a virtual world (more information on
separate flyer)
Friday, May 20: Nova Training, Wolverhampton: SEND in work-based learning organisations
Wednesday, June 8: University of Warwick, Coventry: SEND across all sectors
Monday, June 13: Heart of Worcestershire College: FELTAG: Blended learning in practice
showcase.
If you are interested in attending any of these daytime events (each organisation is invited to send
three people), either fill in the Professional Exchange questionnaire on the WMCETT website (link
below), and email it to Julie Chamberlain at J.chamberlain@warwick.ac.uk , or email Julie to be sent
a link to it:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/cll/courses/professionaldevelopment/wmcett/researchprojects/
professional_exchange
Help us plan more events
We would like to know what subjects you would like to see covered at other events, with networks
for participants set up afterwards. Fill in the above questionnaire and email it to
J.chamberlain@warwick.ac.uk or call 024 7615 0661 to tell us.
Background to Professional Exchange
The key principles of the Education and Training Foundation’s plans for Professional Exchange are
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Accessibility across a group of organisations for as wide a range of teaching staff as possible
Extremely low cost – preferably free at point of delivery
Locally relevant as well as delivering national priority work
Horizontal structure in which teaching and teacher development are the key aims and
objectives
Re-use of skills or expertise developed through previous activity
The ETF feel that ownership of improvement activity is key to developmental success. There will also
be the use of previous and current work of the Foundation, including the involvement of Regional
Specialist Leads, and those taking part in Outstanding Teaching Learning and Assessment (OTLA)
projects.
It is intended that the network meeting days are the start of the Professional Exchange, and that
links and collaborations will continue after the end of this pilot.
An event will be run at the University of Warwick in the autumn term for participants at all events to
meet again and demonstrate how they have benefited from this project.
All sessions are also designed to support the ETF Professional Standards and each one will be
mapped to demonstrate which value, attribute, knowledge, understanding or skill they map to.
For more information about the ETF’s Professional Exchange project see their website here:
http://www.et-foundation.co.uk/supporting/support-practitioners/improvements-inteacher-learning-and-assessment/professional-exchange-regional-projects/
For more information about other events in WMCETT’s West Midlands Learning
Consortium’s calendar see the website here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/cll/courses/professionaldevelopment/wmcett/researchp
rojects/professional_exchange
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