The *BSME UAE Professional Development Group (PDG) was launched in September 2006 by a core group of schools based in the UAE. Currently 17 member schools strong the group sets out to:
 Promote high quality professional development for staff employed by schools in the Group.
Organise and run CPD activities and workshops that are good value and relevant for member schools and their staff.
Encourage a spirit of cooperation and mutual support between member schools and their staff by sharing, where appropriate, expertise and experiences.
Provide opportunities for other BSME schools by both sharing activities with them and running a model of CPD that other schools or areas may wish to follow.
The PDG has hosted many successful training conferences and always seeks the highest calibre of internationally acclaimed trainers to support their teachers, the likes of Ros Wilson, Paul Ginnis, Sir Clive Davies and Pie Corbett to name a few.
We are also continuously building links with major educational companies such as Focus Education, IOE University of London, Edexcel and AQA.
Approximately 50 different schools access our programmes each year from across the Middle East, allowing good practice to be shared and networks between teachers in similar roles to be established.
The PDG also supports and encourages BSME subject group meetings. The meetings offer an informal forum for teachers from within the BSME schools to meet and share ideas, resources and information surrounding their subject specialism, key stage or pastoral responsibility.
The key to the success of our training conferences is maintaining close communication with schools and teachers, listening to their needs and where possible accommodating as many of them as is financially viable to do so.
As the PDG Co-ordinator I am always happy to receive referrals and/or topics for training conferences. Please feel free to contact me at any time.
* BSME UAE – British Schools in the Middle East (United Arab Emirates) www.bsme.org.uk |
Article 1 - Welcome - PDG Coordinator
Dear Colleagues
Over the past few months I have been working on the development of the PDG website. This is still very much work in progress with the aim that it will, over time, become a resource for teachers to be able to access up to date relevant information about CPD, to see examples of best practice, to communicate on line with each other, to source new publications or software that might be of use/relevance and as a resource of action based research projects.
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Article 2 - NPQH update – PDG Co-ordinator
Dear Colleagues
There has been some confusion since the final cohort of the NPQH as we knew it ran, as to whether International candidates can undertake the new NPQH and if so what the guidelines are. Having spoken with several candidates on the current cohort and Mary Dawe from the Institute of Education (IOE) it appears that it is indeed possible for International candidates to access the new NPQH, but that the changes have an impact on the cost and the readiness to apply for Headship within 18 months of completing the NPQH.
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Article 3 -Organising Disorganisation in the classroom
In every class there are individuals who have difficulties with organisation. There will be children who never have the right equipment, constantly forget their P.E. bag or swimming kit, lose reading books, letters home, and their coats. Frustration leads us to use clichés; “If it wasn’t attached, you’d forget your head!” This disorganisation is often reflected in the work that they do – it seems that their thoughts and ideas are just as jumbled as their possessions, so that writing a sentence or solving a Numeracy problem can be just as daunting to them as remembering what lessons they have today.
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