How can CILIP best support candidates to achieve Certification (ACLIP), Chartership (MCLIP) or Fellowship (FCLIP) through its Professional Registration activities, services and information?
What ideas do you have to ensure that process and guidance are as straight-forward, accessible, transparent and accountable as possible? If you are, or have recently, worked towards professional registration then Kate, as Chair of the CILIP Professional Registration & Accreditation Board and Victoria, as a Candidate Support Officer, would love to hear from you.
This workshop session began with a brief overview of current professional registration requirements, followed by a facilitated discussion.
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CILIP Conference - Imagining futures for Professional Registration support - Victoria Treadway and Kate Robinson
1. IMAGINING FUTURES
FOR PROFESSIONAL
REGISTRATION SUPPORT
Kate Robinson, Chair of the CILIP Professional Registration Assessment Board (PRAB),
FCLIP
Victoria Treadway, CILIP North West Candidate Support Officer (CSO), MCLIP
CILIP Conference 2019
3. THE CURRENT PROCESS: CORE COMPONENTS AND
REQUIREMENTS
• Choose level, enrol, find a mentor
Getting started
• Self assessment: where are you now, where do you want to be? Revisit at the end to
measure impact
PKSB
• Undertake CPD and apply it, reflect on your professional experience
Developing yourself & collecting evidence
• An evaluative statement linking to selective evidence that demonstrates how you
meet the assessment criteria
Assembling your portfolio
• Submission fee & submit on VLE
Submitting
4. PERSPECTIVES FROM THE PRAB CHAIR
CRITERIA
1. Identified areas for improvement in their personal performance, undertaken
activities to develop skills (…)
2. Considered/Examined the organisational context of their service/work (…)
3. Enhanced their knowledge of information services/the wider professional
context/the information profession (…)
5. PERSPECTIVES FROM THE PRAB CHAIR
PITFALLS
• Evaluating service performance
• Impact of CPD
• Wider profession
• Reflection
POLISHING
• Proof-checked
• Addresses all criteria
• Well-structured
• Relevant
6. PERSPECTIVES FROM A CANDIDATE SUPPORT
OFFICER
Frequently asked questions
• Which level of professional registration is right for me?
• How long should my portfolio be?
• How many pieces of evidence should I include?
• Are there examples of portfolios I can look at?
• Will you read my portfolio?
• Will my employer see my portfolio?
• How do I navigate the VLE?
7. HOW COULD SUPPORT BE IMPROVED?
Guidance
Where have you got stuck?
What have you found
useful?
What else would you like to
see?
What could good guidance
look like?
Mentor support
What does good mentor
support look like?
Employer support
What does good employer
support look like?
How might we engage
employers to best support
and celebrate professional
qualifications?
9. WHAT NEXT?
• Feed back to CILIP
• Keep the conversation going!
liskmr@bath.ac.uk
Hinweis der Redaktion
Kate
Kate
We will present our perspectives and then ask you to share yours.
We’re looking for best-practice, positive thoughts and ideas to help shape CILIP’s processes and guidance around Professional Registration so that CILIP can best support you.
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Victoria
PKSB: this is about what you are going to do, and then again about the impact and effectiveness of what you’ve done.
Don’t fill the whole thing in – it’s very comprehensive, not all of it will be about you.
Things change, that’s fine. Tell us about it.
Tell us about what happened, think about impact.
Make sure it’s up to date
Think about your future plans too. Tell us.
Evaluative Statement: this is the keystone of your application. It’s also very limited by word count – don’t waste them!
Is it reflective?
Does it link to the assessment criteria (structure it around them? Be explicit)
Is it cross-referenced to the evidence?
Mentor: this is a really important relationship
Make best use of it, be an active participant.
Tell us about it, including your professional discussions.
Evidence:
Well organised (link to Evaluative Statement)
Clear who’s work it is – you or someone else? Use ‘I’ as well as ‘we’ – we are a collegiate profession, but don’t be shy about taking the credit and recognising your own input
Annotate
Is it relevant, is it reflective, is it enough – but not too much (careful – don’t need the whole of a presentation, or 60 bits of evidence!)
Polishing:
Spell check, grammar, acronyms, data-protection, referencing – it’s hard to see your own work, get someone else to read/proof-check this.
Refer to all the evidence – if it’s not linked, don’t put it in – get someone to look at the links/structure.
Be selective – what do/don’t you need to include?
Kate
What the assessors are looking for: handout re. the different levels
Remember, it’s all about the criteria – have you demonstrated how you have met these?
There are some things to watch out for that we see a lot of:
What are your organisation’s aims and objectives – what are yours (write some!) – what do you think of them? How have you contributed? What have you done? Did it work? What next? Etc. etc.
Don’t be too operational – ‘look out’ – don’t describe too much
Don’t be longitudinal in your evaluative statement – you’ll get lost in the woods and become very descriptive – don’t be too descriptive
Think about impact – what happened when you changed something, what have you learned, what will you do differently next time, what more do you need to know?
Don’t simply write about how you meet the criteria through your role – you need to think more broadly – what do you think about your organisation, what do you know about the wider profession etc. (levels important here)
Don’t forget to look outside your own sector, and when you do, don’t just bring it ‘back home’
Don’t simply include a set of certificates and presentations – ‘so what’ – make it real and relevant
It’s great when we read about what you think – your ‘professional voice’ as a librarian – be professional, be reflective, be constructive
Enjoy telling us – we’ll really enjoy reading it.
Victoria
How many pieces of evidence?
There is no definitive figure on how much to include, but make sure you are selective and only include evidence that directly supports your statement. If you feel you have enough to meet the criteria, then don’t add any more! You only need to prove you have met the criteria once!
Kate to bring handout with criteria for each level of professional registration to share.
Kate
What ideas and experiences do you have that will help us ensure that processes and guidance are as straight-forward, accessible, transparent and accountable as possible?
Victoria
Think about: What works? What doesn’t? What would this support look like if we were able to start from scratch and if the only things we had to keep were the PKSB and the criteria?
Two conversations (split room into two): 1+2, 1+3. Agree a raconteur.
1. Guidance / communication
2. Mentor support
3. Employer engagement
Jo and Victoria to facilitate discussion and feed back, encouraging tables to chip in.
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