June 6, 2020
Above: Aileen Kennedy presents at the IPDA Conference. This IPDA Scotland blog post was written by Catriona Oates. The IPDA International Conference will take place online, on November 27th and 28th this year. This is the first time the conference has moved Read more…
May 21, 2020
Above: Catriona Oates speaks about professional learning in Scotland at the IPDA Annual Conference 2019. This post was written by IPDA Scotland Chair, Catriona Oates. Tuesday 19th May saw the (re)launch of IPDA International’s Scottish association. IPDA provides a forum Read more…
May 18, 2020
Date: Tuesday 2nd June 2020Time: 4:30pm (Hong Kong Time (UTC +8))Registration: Click here to register This webinar will be led by Professor Judyth Sachs. Abstract This is an interactive workshop that discusses whether teaching is a vocation or a profession. Drawing on Read more…
IPDA Ireland hosted its second seminar on 6th February 2020 at Maynooth University. It attracted a wide audience including principals, teachers, teacher educators and others with an interest in leadership and professional learning. The seminar created a space for critical conversations Read more…
In response to the Covid19 lockdown, IPDA Ireland hosted a slow chat on Friday 3rd April 2020 titled ‘Risk, Resilience and Response-Ability in Remote Teaching and Learning’. Click the image to view the programme. The following questions were posed to Read more…
May 15, 2020
This post for IPDA Scotland’s blog was written by JP Mynott. A challenge for people wishing to be involved in professional learning can be physically attending events. There are always things happening in school, children to pick up and a Read more…
May 9, 2020
This blog post was written by IPDA Scotland Vice-Chair Suzie Dick. This time last year I gave a presentation featuring the infographic below at the Learning for Professional Learning Symposium at the University of Cambridge. The purpose of the symposium Read more…
April 27, 2020
Given the complexity of the current context in Hong Kong, rather than hosting face to face events for the remainder of the academic year, IPDA Hong Kong are running a special series of webinars connecting last years #IPDAconversations theme of Read more…
Given the complexity of the current context in Hong Kong, rather than hosting face to face events for the remainder of the academic year, IPDA Hong Kong are running a special series of webinars connecting last years #IPDAconversations theme of Read more…
This webinar took place on Tuesday 16th June 2020. This Webinar: This is Part 3 of a series of three related webinars exploring ‘Ethics and Professional Practice in Education’ led by Dr. David Aldridge, Brunel University London. Part 3: Literary Read more…
Date: Wednesday 27th May 2020 Time: 4:30pm (Hong Kong Time (UTC +7)) Registration: Click here to register This webinar is open to all. IPDA Hong Kong is delighted to introduce the next instalment in the series of #IPDAconversations webinars. This Read more…
Date: Monday 4th May 2020 Time: 4:30pm (Hong Kong Time (UTC +7)) Registration: Click here to register This webinar is open to all. IPDA Hong Kong is delighted to introduce the next instalment in the series of #IPDAconversations webinars. This Read more…
Download the latest bulletin from IPDA England including the following: IPDA England Committee updates and call for new committee members Upcoming online events: Current issues in teacher professional development Teacher wellbeing and its implications for professional development Annual IPDA conference Read more…
April 8, 2020
IPDA England hosted an online open twilight event exploring Current issues in teacher professional development. The event took place on 11 May 2020 from 16:00-18:00, and offered an opportunity to reflect on research, with the aim to explore key issues in education, Read more…
March 9, 2020
Partap IPDA International Conference 2020 was organised by IPDA India and Partap College of Education, Ludhiana, in collaboration with Kazan Federal University under the patronage of International Professional Development Association (IPDA), U.K. on the theme “Cross-border and Multicultural perspectives in Professional Development of Teachers” Read more…
February 23, 2020
#ipdaengland hosted this slow chat looking broadly at ‘Teacher wellbeing and its implications for professional development’. The chat was active from 2pm-8pm on Sunday 23 February 2020. Dr Suzanne Culshaw acted as guest co-host, along with your IPDA England committee members. Follow Read more…
February 20, 2020
Time: 4:30pm (GMT+8) Click here to register for this event Networking is increasingly seen as unequivocally a ‘good thing’ for professional learning. While face-to-face networking has been encouraged for many years, we now see the emergence of a multitude of Read more…
Given the complexity of the current context in Hong Kong, rather than hosting face to face events for the remainder of the academic year, IPDA Hong Kong are running a special series of webinars connecting last years #IPDAconversations theme of Read more…
January 30, 2020
The Research-Engaged Practice Network is a group for practitioners and researchers to share, learn about and plan research and enquiry. Our focus is always on close-to-practice research, carried out with and by current education practitioners. REPN meetings take place at Read more…
January 13, 2020
Annual IPDA Conference 2019 It was lovely to see many of you at the 2019 conference in Birmingham, and to hear so many interesting presentations and join in the stimulating conversations. IPDA England Committee Thanks were expressed to Coleen Jackson Read more…
January 3, 2020
It may only take one conversation in academia to discover that there are alternative views and beliefs to those that are your own. For me, it has always been apparent that not every scholar or academic shares the same confidence Read more…
November 25, 2019
The annual IPDA Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be taking place on Friday 29 November 2019 at 17.15 in Conference Room 1, Conference Centre, Aston. Members can download the AGM documents below.
October 17, 2019
IPDA Ireland hosted this Slow Chat on 12th October 2019. This page features some of the responses and analytics. Analytics With 64 tweets posted, the slow chat’s overall impressions were over 33,000. Followers were engaged, with 895 actions being taken, including 42 retweets, Read more…
October 14, 2019
On the 8th June, IPDA Hong Kong had it’s inaugural event; an #IPDAConversation on the theme of ‘Harnessing Creativity in Changing Times: Risk, resilience and professional learning’. The day consisted of a keynote presentation by Dr. Jiafang Lu from the Read more…
October 7, 2019
Guest Editors: Kathryn Strom, Linda Abrams, & Tammy Mills Associate Editors: Ken Jones and Aileen Kennedy We invite you to submit an article for a Special Issue of Professional Development in Education on the theme of “non-linear perspectives on teacher learning and practice”, which Read more…
Welcome to the Autumn Bulletin from the International Professional Development Association. In this edition you can find out about: Annual Conference 2019 AGM 2019 IPDA Scholarship 2019 IPDA 2019 prize Update on IPDA local associations Call for papers, special edition Read more…
July 30, 2019
According to the education secretary Damian Hinds, ‘teachers need to better prepare pupils of the risks of “fake news” and disinformation online’. In an increasingly network-driven society, it appears to be the case that pupils are not only part of Read more…
July 5, 2019
Please see the information below regarding a Special Conference Issue of the journal Practice: Contemporary Issues in Practitioner Education. Harnessing Creativity in Changing Times: Risk, Resilience and Professional Learning Editors: Hazel Bryan, Alex Kendall We invite submissions for a special Read more…
May 15, 2019
Ahead of the IPDA International Conference, IPDA Ireland hosted this slow chat on ‘Harnessing creativity in changing times; risk, resilience and professional learning’ from May 10th-12th 2019. This page features some of the responses to the questions asked. Analytics Over Read more…
May 8, 2019
This seminar was given by IPDA England’s Dr Linda Devlin and Pauline Smith at the Research-Engaged Practice Network, Sheffield Hallam University on 8 May 2019. Co-creation of the Continuing Professional Development Pathway through ‘cross border’ collaboration in the West Midlands Read more…
May 7, 2019
We invite you to submit an article for a Special Issue of Professional Development in Education on the place of professional growth and professional learning in leading socially just schools which we are intending to publish in Autumn 2020. Articles selected for Read more…
April 1, 2019
#ipdaengland hosted a slow chat looking broadly at ‘being creative with collaboration’ from 8pm Friday 29 March to 8pm Sunday 31 March 2019. Dr John Mynott, Head of Central School, Watford led this chat, with contributions from a range of colleagues around the Read more…
