CPD & ICT

Santosh Mahapatra
BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
Plan for the session
Discovering

 what you are doing for CPD

 how you use ICT

 whether and how you use ICT for CPD

Exploring

 useful and accessible ICT tools and resources for CPD

What are you doing for your CPD?
• Visit www.menti.com and use the code 54 53 75
• Attending in-service training programmes, workshops, webinars,
short-term courses, online courses, social media, discussing with
colleagues, etc.
• Has anyone tried:
recording one’s own classroom sessions and listening to them?
recording one’s recollection of classroom experience?
asking a colleague to observe your class?
How do you use ICT?

• Which ICT tools and resources do you use?

• For what purposes?

• How would you rate your access to ICT:

EXCELLENT GOOD AVERAGE POOR

ICT for CPD

• Anyone familiar with it? www.menti.com with code 20 94 55

• How many of you believe that ICT should be integrated into CPD?

• Any experience with ICT for CPD?

• Let’s share some experiences…innovative ones if any.

Let’s explore ICT tools and resources for
CPD
• Without internet: video and audio recording, classroom
observation by a peer, maintaining a picture diary, more?
• Task: work in a group, take a topic related to teaching, create a set
of questions, respond to each question in your group, record the
responses and listen to it together
• More: do it with your colleagues in your school, use video if you
can, upload on Youtube, share
• More: record your colleague’s classroom and allow her/him to do
the same for your class, look at both the clips together
Internet-based ICT for CPD
• Participating in webinars: how many of you do?, actively?,
regularly?
• https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/five-5-five-webinars-
celebrate-world-teachers-day
• Online courses?: shared on FB
• Social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.: ELTAI, India
• Blogging: video, audio, written: can you create a video/audio blog
here? www.blogger.com
Websites for CPD
• https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk
• www.teachertrainingvideos.com
• https://in.usembassy.gov/education-culture/study-usa/regional-e
nglish-language-office-relo/
• https://www.britishcouncil.in/
• http://ncert.nic.in/
• Web 2.0 tools: Google Hangout, Classroom, Padlet, Doc., etc.
• More?
Creating stories of teacher research
• Research as a tool of CPD

• Carrying out action research, recording and sharing

• Learning video editing: Windows Movie Maker, Any Video Converter

• Posters/pictures on school walls and social media

Mobile as a CPD tool

• Recording, WhatsApp

• Creating PLCs on WhatsApp

• Sharing information about scholarships, training programmes,

research projects, etc.

Let’s choose the most effective tools

• 3 parameters: accessibility, convenience, effectiveness

• Work in a group: choose one ICT tool/resource for CPD, use these
parameters for selecting the tool/resource
Contact me
• santosheflu@gmail.com
• BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
• ELTAI, India on Facebook
• @santosheflu on Twitter