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CPD Learning Activities - Examples
This list of activities has been produced to offer ideas for you to consider that may assist you with your professional development. It is based on examples put forward by accredited conservators. They are in no specific order and other examples will be added at intervals – the list could be endless!
Please remember it is the activity that supports the learning. Your
CPD log /
CPD review would need to record what you gained from the activity and how this learning can benefit your own professional activities, other people, and the profession in general. Just listing the activity is not sufficient to understand what you have learnt from it.
- Discussions with colleagues. Colleagues are a major source of learning for all of us and experience can be readily exchanged very informally - a quick visit to an adjoining studio to view a new piece of equipment, a telephone conversation or discussions over coffee at a conference to explore a technique or problem. It enables people to explore very specific questions relating to a project in a very up-to-date way. The learning from these exchanges is often taken for granted.
- Specific courses and conferences are good, but they are not compulsory CPD learning – and it is what you gain from the course that is important
- Going on a day's seminar and touring another conservation unit as part of the visit - seeing how others approach common problems and maybe learning about the use of a new material!
- Take up a physical activity that can be slotted into lunch-break, going to work or on the way home from work. Things like swimming, gym, jogging, cycling or just walking are good for reflective thinking, problem solving and idea inspiration. Many reviewers put down "make more time for myself" - this addresses that, gives the opportunity for reflection, makes a mental break from work/home and should lead to improved well-being!
- Visit exhibition/art galleries/museums
- Read publications linked to conservation such as general art publications
- Take up a new hobby to unwind and that might also develop manual dexterity and/or deductive thinking such as advanced cookery or playing an instrument
- Do a course or read a book on photography
- Visit other conservators –and they are just as valuable if they are not in your own discipline - very often we are so "on top" of what we do that it takes a look from another angle to see something that could be done differently or better
- Reading, or attending a course to improve writing / communication skills
- Doing a book keeping course/ small business course/evening class – regardless of being employed or self employed it can help to make sense of finance / budgeting and management!
- Improving computer skills – learn a new program – i.e. databases/spreadsheets
- Home improvements - re-decorating a room/refurbishment of - this can be used as practising Project Management - time needed; funds required; people needed; disruption to the house; timescale for each facet of the project; grand opening/pat on the back for achieving/ or major flop!; reflection. ...
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