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ipda Annual International Conferences

The ipda Annual International Conference aims to develop a culture of openness, trust and critical friendship amongst ipda members both old and new. We are an association of individuals who appreciate and value the opportunities presented by the conference to share and subsequently to enhance professional development in all of its many and varied aspects.

 

 

ipda International Conference, 2011

Learning: a public good or a private commodity?

Vanue: Aston University Conference Centre, Birmingham, UK
Date: 25-26November, 2011

Details of research papers and key note presentations are coming soon.

ipda International Conference, 2010

Professional Development in Hard Times: Quality v Cost, Training v Education

Vanue: Aston University Conference Centre, Birmingham
Date: 26-27 November, 2010

Colleagues from 15 countries enjoyed two days of high quality presentations,   stimulating debate and critical friendly networking in what has been described as the most successful ipda conference in recent years.

Full details of research papers and key note presentations are now available here:

• Fixed vs negotiated CPD: Abridging the best of the TDA’s PPD with the new MTL (paper) - CPD Departmental team, the Bath Spa University.
  
  Note: the presentation slides for same paper is here.

• The Triple Bottom Line: Towards sustainable CPD (ppt) - Tony Townsend, University of Glasgow  

• Looking at things from a slight distance; Learning outcomes from research conducted by teachers (paper) - Marco Snoek, Hogeschool van Amsterdam; Erica Moens, Montessori College Oost
  
  Note: the presentation slides for same paper is here.

• Living our Principles: Three examples of practice (ppt) - Joy Jarvis, Roger Levy, University of Hertfordshire, UK; Anja Swennen, VU University Amsterdam

• Student teachers’ supervision as a professional development activity: building work-related skills (abstract) - Mark A. Minott, University College, Cayman Islands; Ionie Liburd Willett, Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College, St Kitts-Nevis
  
  Note: the presentation slides for same paper is here.

• Creating “authorised” teachers: the leadership of CPD in a self-improving school system (paper) - Nick Sorensen, Bath Spa University
  
  Note: the presentation slides for same paper is here.

• The Primary Science Quality Mark. How is this uniquely developmental, self- evaluative and training-supported award scheme raising the profile of science in primary schools across the UK? (paper) - Steve Marshall & Jane Turner
  
  Note: the presentation slides for same paper is here.

• Scenarios for the future of the teaching profession (paper) - Marco Snoek, Hogeschool van Amsterdam
  
  Note: the presentation slides for same paper is here.

• A Canadian pre-tenure teacher educator’s professional development journey: Her struggles in teaching at the University level. (ppt) - Stephanie Chitpin, University of Ottaw

• The Objective Knowledge Growth Framework in [and] Principal’s Decision Making: A proposed (ppt) - Stephanie Chitpin, University of Ottaw; Paul Newton, University of Alberta; Don Klinger, Peter Grimmett, Claire IsaBelle

Previous conference highlights

ipda 2009 annual conference: Keynote presentations’ slides

• Strategies for change: rethinking professional development to meet the challenges of diversity in the early years profession - Mathisa Urban

• The twenty-first century vision, values, and rationale for the professional development of the children’s workforce in schools in England - Hilary Emery

• Teachers’ ownership of professionalism - Marco Snoek

At the 2007 Annual Conference in Belfast we were delighted to be able to video a number of interviews both with delegates and speakers, identifying what they felt that the ipda conference had meant to them. Click here to view.

previous conference papers are available in paper archive