Continuing Professional Development
 

Skills Assessment and Networking

This Phase I work involved:

Establishing a network of former LWTT graduates and employers

• Assessing their individual training needs and preferred styles of learning

• Assessment of group training needs and styles

• Creation of individuals and group learning programmes

We underpinned the work with published documents and reports on skills development, 'Creating a Learning Landscape: the Skills Framework for Community Regeneration' and Learners in Regeneration: the Skills Pack'.

A skills assessment questionnaire and guidance notes were produced to assess skills.  This was analysed using a ranking matrix to prioritise skills and learning needs.

Learning Journeys

This Phase II work involved:

Training based on the identified learning needs provided through the LWTT Continuing Professional Network meetings, through information on other training opportunities and through encouraging peer support between meetings.  The skills assessment exercise will be repeated at the end of one year and the results compared to the initial survey.   This will enable

The production of individual learning case studies

• A reassessment of the group learning

• An assessment of the usefulness of the Skills Framework for regeneration in this context

• Reflection on the network as a mechanism for continuous professional development

For more information please contact:

Jim Carruth
Skills & Learning Manager
Scottish Centre for Regeneration, Communities Scotland
Festival Business Centre
150 Brand Street
Glasgow
G51 1DH
Tel:  0141 419 1692
E-Mail:  Jim.Carruth@communitiesscotland.gsi.gov.uk

or

Fiona Craig (LWTT)